نصیحت
تو بھی ہے شیوہ ارباب ریا میں کاملدل میں لندن کی ہوس، لب پہ ترے ذکر حجاز
English translation
You are also perfect in the ways of hypocritical people; you pine for London in the heart but you talk of Hijaz.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ارباب ريا: ریا کار لوگ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 12 in “نصیحت” (Advice) 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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