عرفی
صدا تربت سے آئی "شکوہء اہل جہاں کم گونوارا تلخ تر می زن چو ذوق نغمہ کم یابی
English translation
Call came from grave: ‘Reduce complaint against world’s people, strike the tune harder if the taste for music has become low.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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