داغ

اے جہان آباد، اے سرمایہ بزم سخنہوگیا پھر آج پامال خزاں تیرا چمن

English translation

Ah! O the Ka'bah of the literateur's religion; your garden has been ruined by autumn today.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 17 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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