ایک خط کے جواب میں
یہ عقدہ ہائے سیاست تجھے مبارک ہوںکہ فیض عشق سے ناخن مرا ہے سینہ خراش
English translation
Congratulations to you on these secrets of politics; as my finger nail by Love’s grace is breast-excoriating.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “ایک خط کے جواب میں” (In Response To A Letter) 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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