جگنو
انداز گفتگو نے دھوکے دیے ہیں ورنہنغمہ ہے بوئے بلبل، بو پھول کی چہک ہے
English translation
The manners of speech have deceived us, otherwise song is nightingale's fragrance; flower's fragrance is its song.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 18 in “جگنو” (The Fire-Fly) 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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