از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را
اے بلبل از وفایش صد بار با تو گفتمتو در کنار گیری باز این رمیدہ بو را
English translation
O nightingale, I warned you many times against the rose’s infidelity; but you persist in clinging to its scentless skeleton.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “از ما بگو سلامی آن ترک تند خو را” (Az ma begu salaami aan turk tand khoo ra) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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