نالہ فراق آرنلڈ کی یاد میں
ذرہ میرے دل کا خورشید آشنا ہونے کو تھاآئنہ ٹوٹا ہوا عالم نما ہونے کو تھا
English translation
My heart's speck was just to be acquainted with the sun. The broken mirror was just to expand into the universe.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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