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 poem

۶۲ / ۶۹