دعا
میں بلبل نالاں ہوں اک اجڑے گلستاں کاتاثیر کا سائل ہوں، محتاج کو، داتا دے!
English translation
I am the wailing nightingale of a ruined rose garden; I am the supplicant for acceptance, O Benevolent one alms to the beggar grant.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بلبل نالاں: آہ و زاری کرتا ہوا بلبل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 10 in “دعا” (The Supplication) 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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