پھول
نہیں یہ شان خودداری، چمن سے توڑ کر تجھ کوکوئی دستار میں رکھ لے، کوئی زیب گلو کر لے
English translation
It does not befit self respect that being picked from the garden you should be put in some turban or pinned to some collar!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
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