لالۂ این چمن آلودۂ رنگ است ہنوز

باش تا پردہ گشایم ز مقام دگریچہ دہم شرح نواہا کہ بچنگ است ہنوز

English translation

Await! And I will raise the veil, that other songs may thrill; what should I of such music tell the lute concealeth still?

Translated by A.J. Arberry

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 6 in “⁨لالۂ این چمن آلودۂ رنگ است ہنوز⁩” (lala-e in chaman aluda-e rang ast hanuz) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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