تصویر درد
بیابان محبت دشت غربت بھی، وطن بھی ہےیہ ویرانہ قفس بھی، آشیانہ بھی، چمن بھی ہے
English translation
The expanse of Love is at once foreign land and homeland; this wilderness is the cage, the nest, as well as the garden.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
دشت غربت: بے وطنی کا صحرا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 62 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 poem۶۲ / ۶۹