تہذیب حاضر
کیا گم تازہ پروازوں نے اپنا آشیاں لیکنمناظر دلکشا دکھلا گئی ساحر کی چالاکی
English translation
The newly flying birds have lost their nests but a pretty sight has been shown by magician’s cunningness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ساحر: جادوگر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 8 in “تہذیب حاضر” (The Present Civilization) 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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