آشنا ہر خار را از قصۂ ما ساختی
طرح نو افکن کہ ما جدت پسند افتادہ ایماین چہ حیرت خانہ ئی امروز و فردا ساختی
English translation
O, lay some new foundation, for we happen to like novelty. What is this giddy peep-how You have made of yesterdays, to-morrows and to-days?
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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