ترانہء ہندی
اقبال! کوئی محرم اپنا نہیں جہاں میںمعلوم کیا کسی کو درد نہاں ہمارا
English translation
Iqbal! In the world there is no confidante of ours: How would anyone know the hidden pathos of ours.*
* Allusion to the callousness of the world community to the calamity of the people of the Indian sub continent resulting from their political subjugation by the British.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
درد نہاں: چھپا ہوا درد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 9 in “ترانہء ہندی” (An Ode To India) 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 poem۹ / ۹