خضرراہ
تازہ ویرانے کی سودائے محبت کو تلاشاور آبادی میں تو زنجیری کشت و نخیل
English translation
The ardent Love is in search of an ever new wild land and in city your effort is in farming and horticulture.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
زنجيري کشت و نخيل: کھیت اور باغات کے کاموں میں مصروف۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 22 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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