نالہ فراق آرنلڈ کی یاد میں
نخل میری آرزوئوں کا ہرا ہونے کو تھاآہ! کیا جانے کوئی میں کیا سے کیا ہونے کو تھا
English translation
The tree of my longings was just going to green up. Ah! What does any one know what I was going to be!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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