موسیقی
از نے او آشکارا راز اومرگ یک شہر است اندر ساز او
English translation
His lute (melody) betrays his inner-self; his musical instruments carriy death of entire city.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس کے نغمے سے اس کے اندر کا راز ظاہر ہو جاتا ہے، اس کے ساز میں پورے شہر کی موت ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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 poem۵ / ۲۸