تصویر درد

وہی اک حسن ہے، لیکن نظر آتا ہے ہر شے میںیہ شیریں بھی ہے گویا بیستوں بھی، کوہکن بھی ہے

English translation

The Beauty is just one but appears in everything; it is Shirin, the sky, as well as the mountain digger (Farhad is called here the mountain digger).

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 66 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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