پیش کش
برگ گل رنگین ز مضمون من استمصرع من قطرۂ خون من است
English translation
From my imagination do the flowers come by their hues. Each line of verse that I compose is a drop of my rich heart’s blood that flows from my pen’s point.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
پھول کی پتی میرے مضمون سے رنگین ہے، میرے ہر شعر کا مصرع میرے خون کا قطرہ ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 28 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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