تضمین بر شعر ابوطالب کلیم
جس سے تیرے حلقہء خاتم میں گردوں تھا اسیراے سلیماں! تیری غفلت نے گنوایا وہ نگیں
English translation
What made heavens contained in your ring’s circle? O Sulaiman (A.S.)! That jewel is lost by your negligence!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
حلقہء خاتم: انگوٹھی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “تضمین بر شعر ابوطالب کلیم” (The Poem Based On A Verse Of Abu Talib Kalim) 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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