تضمین بر شعر صائب
نہیں ضبط نوا ممکن تو اڑ جا اس گلستاں سےکہ اس محفل سے خوشتر ہے کسی صحرا کی تنہائی
English translation
Fly away from this garden if music’s restraint is impossible; as better than this assembly is the seclusion of some wilderness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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