پھول

چمن میں غنچہ گل سے یہ کہہ کر اڑ گئی شبنممذاق جور گلچیں ہو تو پیدا رنگ و بو کر لے

English translation

The dew disappeared from garden saying to the flower bud: If you love gardener’s oppression, you should create beauty.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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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