اسیری
مشک اذفر چیز کیا ہے، اک لہو کی بوند ہےمشک بن جاتی ہے ہو کر نافہ آہو میں بند
English translation
The excellent musk is nothing but a drop of blood, which becomes musk when it is enclosed in the deer’s navel.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “اسیری” (Imprisonment) 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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