پیش کش
او چو بلبل در چمن فردوس گوشمن بصحرا چون جرس گرم خروش
English translation
He was a nightingale that filled with song an orchard; I am but a desert gong, a signal for the caravan to start.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
اس کی آواز چمن میں بلبل کی طرح 'فردوس گوش' تھی؛ میں صحرا میں جرس کی مانند سرگرم خروش ہوں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 82 in “پیش کش” (Epistle) in the section Dedication, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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