تنہائی
بہ کوہ رفتم و پرسیدم این چہ بیدردیست؟رسد بگوش تو آہ و فغان غم زدہ ئیاگر بہ سنگ تو لعلی ز قطرۂ خونستیکی در آبہ سخن با من ستم زدہ ئیبخود خزید و نفس در کشید و ہیچ نگفت
English translation
I went up to the mountain and said, ‘How unfeeling you are! Have the sighs and screams of a soul in torment ever reached your ears?
If within your rocks there is only one diamond formed from a drop of blood. Then come for a moment and talk to a wretched man like me. It withdrew into itself and held its breath; it did not say a word.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “تنہائی” (Solitude) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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