غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
دیکھ کر تجھ کو افق پر ہم لٹاتے تھے گہراے تہی ساغر! ہماری آج ناداری بھی دیکھ
English translation
On sighting you we used to give charity lavishly; O empty cup! Today at our indigence also look.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 18 in “غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید” (The First of Shawwal or the Crescent of Eid) 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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