مصور

مجھ کو تو یہی غم ہے کہ اس دور کے بہزادکھو بیٹھے ہیں مشرق کا سرور ازلی بھی

English translation

I feel sad that Behzad's of modern time have lost East's rapture sweet and joy sublime.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 4 in “⁨مصور⁩” (The Painter) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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