فراق

اندھیری رات میں کرتا ہے وہ سرود آغازصدا کو اپنی سمجھتا ہے غیر کی آواز

English translation

He starts the music in the darkness of the night. He considers his own voice as someone else's voice.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 7 in “⁨فراق⁩” (Separation) 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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