نالہ فراق آرنلڈ کی یاد میں
جا بسا مغرب میں آخر اے مکاں تیرا مکیںآہ! مشرق کی پسند آئی نہ اس کو سر زمیں
English translation
O house! Your resident is now residing in the West. Ah! The land of the East was not liked by him.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 15 in “نالہ فراق آرنلڈ کی یاد میں” (Lament of Separation in Memory of Arnold) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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