نالہ فراق آرنلڈ کی یاد میں

تا ز آغوش وداعش داغ حیرت چیدہ استہمچو شمع کشتہ در چشم نگہ خوابیدہ است

English translation

‘As from his departure's breast the scar is picked up; sight is asleep in my eyes like the extinguished candle.’

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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.

Read it in the poem

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