تصویر درد
بنائیں کیا سمجھ کر شاخ گل پر آشیاں اپناچمن میں آہ! کیا رہنا جو ہو بے آبرو رہنا
English translation
To what purpose should we make our nest in the rose-branch? Ah! How can we live with constant disgrace in the garden?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 56 of 69 in “تصویر درد” (Picture of Pain) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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