میں اورتو
مرا عیش غم،مرا شہد سم، مری بود ہم نفس عدمترا دل حرم، گرو عجم ترا دیں خریدہ کافری
English translation
My grief is pleasure, my poison is honey, my existence is companion of annihilation. Your heart is Haram, captivated by the Ajam; your din has been purchased by infidelity!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سم: زہر۔مري بود ہم نفس عدم: میرا ہونا نہ ہونے کی طرح ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 9 in “میں اورتو” (Me And You) 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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