نسیم و شبنم
کھینچیں نہ اگر تجھ کو چمن کے خس و خاشاکگلشن بھی ہے اک سر سرا پردہ افلاک
English translation
Dew: If thorns and straws of worldly mead to cause a tension in you fail, then bear in mind, this lonely parks for heaven's dome is like a veil.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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