نوائے غم
آہ! امید محبت کی بر آئی نہ کبھیچوٹ مضراب کی اس ساز نے کھائی نہ کبھی
English translation
Ah! The hope of my Love was never fulfilled: this instrument was never hit by the plectrum.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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