تضمین بر شعر ابوطالب کلیم

تیرے آبا کی نگہ بجلی تھی جس کے واسطےہے وہی باطل ترے کاشانہء دل میں مکیں

English translation

Your ancestors’ eye was the thunderbolt for falsehood; the same falsehood is now lodged in your breast.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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.

Read it in the poem

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