داغ

اشک کے دانے زمین شعر میں بوتا ہوں میںتو بھی رو اے خاک دلی! داغ کو روتا ہوں میں

English translation

I am sowing the seeds of tears in the soil of verse. You also cry O Delhi's soil! I am crying for Dagh!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 16 of 23 in “⁨داغ⁩” (Nawab Mirza Khan Dagh) 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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