موسیقی
الحذر این نغمۂ موت است و بسنیستی در کسوت صوت است و بس
English translation
Beware! His is the song of death; it is has nothing but death in the sound (of his song).
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس کا نغمہ، نغمہء موت ہے، اس سے بچ ، اس کے راگ کے لباس میں سواے فنا کے اور کچھ نہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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 poem۸ / ۲۸