تصویر درد

نہ رہ اپنوں سے بے پروا، اسی میں خیر ہے تیریاگر منظور ہے دنیا میں او بیگانہ خو رہنا

English translation

It is best for you not to remain indifferent to yours own O apathetic person! If you want to remain alive in the world.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 59 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.

Read it in the poem

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