پھول کا تحفہ عطا ہونے پر
کبھی یہ پھول ہم آغوش مدعا نہ ہواکسی کے دامن رنگیں سے آشنا نہ ہوا
English translation
This flower could never attain its objective; could never know some one’s colorful skirt.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 7 in “پھول کا تحفہ عطا ہونے پر” (On Being Presented With A Flower) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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