داغ

وہ گل رنگیں ترا رخصت مثال بو ہواآہ! خالی داغ سے کاشانہ و اردو ہوا

English translation

That colourful rose of yours has departed like fragrance; that is, the abode of Urdu has become deprived of Dagh.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 18 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

۱۸ / ۲۳