شبلی و حالی

کہنے لگا کہ دیکھ تو کیفیت خزاںاوراق ہو گئے شجر زندگی کے زرد

English translation

He said ‘Just look at the autumn’s condition; the leaves of the tree of life have become pale.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 of 10 in “⁨شبلی و حالی⁩” (Shibli And Hali) 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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