نوائے غم
بربط کون و مکاں جس کی خموشی پہ نثارجس کے ہر تار میں ہیں سینکڑوں نغموں کے مزار
English translation
The harp of the universe is sacrificed on whose silence; every string of which is the grave of hundreds of melodies.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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