داغ
آج لیکن ہمنوا! سارا چمن ماتم میں ہےشمع روشن بجھ گئی، بزم سخن ماتم میں ہے
English translation
However, today O Companion! The whole garden is mourning! Lighted candle is extinguished, literary assembly is mourning!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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