شمع اور شاعر
اب نوا پیرا ہے کیا، گلشن ہوا برہم ترابے محل تیرا ترنم، نغمہ بے موسم ترا
English translation
Why are you singing now? Your garden is in disorder! Your singing is out of place; your music is out of season.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
برہم: اجڑ گیا ہے۔نوا پيرا: گیت گا رہا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 86 in “شمع اور شاعر” (The Candle And The Poet) 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 poem۱۶ / ۸۶