انسان
منظر چمنستاں کے زیبا ہوں کہ نازیبامحروم عمل نرگس مجبور تماشا ہے
English translation
The sights of the garden may or may not be beautiful; the narcissus, unable to act, forced to watching is!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “انسان” (The Human Race) 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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