موسیقی

چشم او را اشک پیہم سرمہ ایستتا توانے بر نوای او مایست

English translation

Perpetual flow of tears is his eyes’ surmah (black stone like metal ground into powder which in this part of the world people apply in eyes to beautify and clean them); as far possible do not pay attention to his flute.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

مسلسل آنسو اس کی آنکھ کا سرمہ ہیں، جہاں تک ہو سکے اس کی آواز پر توجہ مت دے-

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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 poem

۷ / ۲۸