عرفی
فغان نیم شب شاعر کی بار گوش ہوتی ہےنہ ہو جب چشم محفل آشنائے لطف بے خوابی
English translation
The midnight wailing of the poet is offensive to the ear, when assembly’s eye be unaware of pleasure of sleeplessness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 8 in “عرفی” (The Poet Saiyyid Muhammad Jamal Al-Din Urfi Shirazi) 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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