پھول

تجھے کیوں فکر ہے اے گل دل صد چاک بلبل کیتو اپنے پیرہن کے چاک تو پہلے رفو کر لے

English translation

O flower! Why do you care for the nightingale’s wounded heart! First you should darn the slits of your own shirt!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 8 in “⁨پھول⁩” (Flower) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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