بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است
حدیث دل بہ کہ گویم چہ راہ بر گیرمکہ آہ بی اثر است و نگاہ بی ادبی است
English translation
Whom shall I tell the story of my heart and in what way? For sighs are ineffectual and looking is irreverence.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است” (Bishakh-e-zindagi ma nami ze tashn-e-labi ast) 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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