بندگی نامہ

شاخ او بی مہرگان عریان ز برگنیست اندر جان او جز بیم مرگ

English translation

Branches of his tree shed leaves without (autumn); he has no life as he is afraid of death every moment.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

اس کے درخت کی شاخ بغیر خزاں کے پتّوں سے عریاں ہوتی ہے، اور اسے ہر دم موت کا خوف لگا رہتا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 20 of 31 in “⁨بندگی نامہ⁩” (The Book of Servitude) in the section Book of Servitude, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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