خضرراہ
اس سراب رنگ و بو کو گلستاں سمجھا ہے توآہ اے ناداں! قفس کو آشیاں سمجھا ہے تو
English translation
You have taken this apparent beauty’s mirage as a garden! Ah! O ignorant one! You have taken the cage to be the nest!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سراب: دھوکہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 48 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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