نصیحت
جھوٹ بھی مصلحت آمیز ترا ہوتا ہےتیرا انداز تملق بھی سراپا اعجاز
English translation
Your lies are also based on what is expediency; the manner of your flattery also is fully miraculous.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
تملق: خوشامد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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