عا شق ہر جائی
ہے حسینوں میں وفا نا آشنا تیرا خطاباے تلون کیش! تو مشہور بھی، رسوا بھی ہے
English translation
Among the beautiful you are famous for infidelity O fickle-minded! You are famous as well as infamous.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
تلون کيش: وہ شخص جو اپنے انداز بدلتا رہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 25 in “عا شق ہر جائی” (The Unfaithful Lover) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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