مسلم
ہاں یہ سچ ہے چشم بر عہد کہن رہتا ہوں میںاہل محفل سے پرانی داستاں کہتا ہوں میں
English translation
Yes, it is true I keep my eye on the old times; I relate the old story to the assembly’s audience.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 18 in “مسلم” (The Muslim) 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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