تضمین بر شعر صائب
کہاں اقبال تو نے آ بنایا آشیاں اپنانوا اس باغ میں بلبل کو ہے سامان رسوائی
English translation
O Iqbal! In what a place you have constructed your nest! In this garden song is the prelude to nightingale’s disgrace!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “تضمین بر شعر صائب” (Based On A Verse Of Sa’Ib) 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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