خضرراہ
توڑ ڈالیں فطرت انساں نے زنجیریں تمامدوری جنت سے روتی چشم آدم کب تلک
English translation
Human nature has broken down all the chains! Man’s eye would weep for the lost Paradise how long?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 60 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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