عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین

برقہا رقصید گرد حاصلمرھزنان بردند کالای دلم

English translation

Lightning’s danced about my harvest; my heart’s store of merchandise by highwaymen was plundered.

Urdu translation

میرے خرمن کے گرد بجلیاں رقص کرتا رہیں اور ان رہزنوں نے میرے دل کی دولت لوٹ لی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 46 of 65 in “⁨عرض حال مصنف بحضور رحمة للعالمین⁩” (The Author’s Memorial To Him Who Is A Mercy To All Living Beings) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (⁨رموزِ بیخودی⁩), published in 1918.

Read it in the poem

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