نانک
آہ! بد قسمت رہے آواز حق سے بے خبرغافل اپنے پھل کی شیرینی سے ہوتا ہے شجر
English translation
Ah! The unfortunate nation remained unaware of the call of the Truth; the tree is unaware of the sweetness of its own fruit.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 8 in “نانک” (Nanak (reference to Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism)) 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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