تصویر درد

ریاض دہر میں نا آشنائے بزم عشرت ہوںخوشی روتی ہے جس کو، میں وہ محروم مسرت ہوں

English translation

In the world's garden unaware of pleasant company I am. Whom happiness still mourns, that hapless person I am.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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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