نسیم و شبنم
انجم کی فضا تک نہ ہوئی میری رسائیکرتی رہی میں پیرہن لالہ و گل چاک
English translation
Breeze: I could not find access to tracts where stars like pendent lamps do shine tearing vest of tulips and the rose was main and foremost duty mine.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “نسیم و شبنم” (Breeze And Dew) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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