عشرت امروز
فراق حور میں ہو غم سے ہمکنار نہ توپری کو شیشہ الفاظ میں اتار نہ تو
English translation
Do not feel grieved by separation from the Houri; do not present the Houri in the mirror of words.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “عشرت امروز” (The Delight of Today) 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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