آشنا ہر خار را از قصۂ ما ساختی
جرم ما از دانہ ئی تقصیر او از سجدہ ئےنے بہ آن بیچارہ میسازی نہ با ما ساختی
English translation
Our fault was we ate of a grain, and his that he refused to bow. You never pardoned that poor devil, nor have You yet forgiven us.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “آشنا ہر خار را از قصۂ ما ساختی” (Aashna har khaar ra az qissa-e-ma saakhti) 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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