نصیحت
در حکام بھی ہے تجھ کو مقام محمودپالسی بھی تری پیچیدہ تر از زلف ایاز
English translation
Officials’ doors are also like Maqam-i-Mahmud* to you; your designs are more interlocked than locks of Ayaz’ hair.
* Maqam-i-Mahmëd – This is the elevated place and the elegant status of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) on the Day of Judgment from where he will request God for forgiveness for his Ummah.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مقام محمود: پسندیدہ مقام۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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