موٹر

ہے پا شکستہ شیوہء فریاد سے جرسنکہت کا کارواں ہے مثال صبا خموش

English translation

The bell is footless from its habit of lamenting; the caravan of fragrance like zephyr is quiet.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 6 in “⁨موٹر⁩” (The Motor Car) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۴ / ۶