داغ
توڑ ڈالی موت نے غربت میں مینائے امیرچشم محفل میں ہے اب تک کیف صہبائے امیر
English translation
Death broke the decanter of Amir* in a strange country’ the assembly's eye still has the ecstasy of the wine of Amir.
* Munshi Amir Ahmad and Amir Ahmad Minaeyi Lakhhnavi; eminent poets of India.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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