یہ سرود قمری و بلبل فریب گوش ہے
یہ سرود قمری و بلبل فریب گوش ہےباطن ہنگامہ آباد چمن خاموش ہے
English translation
These songs of turtle doves and nightingales are merely ear’s illusion
Behind this uproar the world of the garden is silent
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “یہ سرود قمری و بلبل فریب گوش ہے” (Yeh sarood-e-qamri o bulbul fareb-e-gosh hai) in the section The Ghazals 3, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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