موسیقی
نغمہ باید تند رو مانند سیلتا برد از دل غمان را خیل خیل
English translation
Song should be forceful, like flash flood; so that it washes away hordes of grief (camping) in the heart.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
نغمہ سیلاب کی مانند تندرو ہونا چاہیے، تا کہ دل کے اندر سے غموں کے لشکر نکال دے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 18 of 28 in “موسیقی” (Music) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
Read it in the poem۱۸ / ۲۸