ہوس ہنوز تماشا گر جہانداریست

بباغ و راغ گہر ہای نغمہ می پاشمگران متاع و چہ ارزان ز کند بازاری است

English translation

In the garden and the mead I sow my jeweled air; precious goods, yet cheap indeed when there are none to hear.

Translated by A.J. Arberry

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 of 7 in “⁨ہوس ہنوز تماشا گر جہانداریست⁩” (hawas hanuz tamasha gar-e jahandari st) 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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