نوائے غم

زندگانی ہے مری مثل رباب خاموشجس کی ہر رنگ کے نغموں سے ہے لبریز آغوش

English translation

My life is similar to that of the silent violin; the lap of which is full of all kinds of melodies.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 8 in “⁨نوائے غم⁩” (The Song Of Grief) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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