موسیقی
چون دل او تیرہ سیمای غلامپست چون طبعش نواہای غلام
English translation
Slave’s forehead (appearance) is dark like his heart; notes of his music are (insipid) like his spirit.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
غلام کی پیشانی اس کے دل کی طرح تاریک ہے، اور اس کے راگ کی نوا ئیں اس کی فطرت کی طرح پست ہوتی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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 poem۳ / ۲۸