داغ
آرزو کو خون رلواتی ہے بیداد اجلمارتا ہے تیر تاریکی میں صیاد اجل
English translation
The tyranny of death makes longing shed tears of blood; the archer of death shoots out arrows in the dark.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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