سرود حرام
اگر نوا میں ہے پوشیدہ موت کا پیغامحرام میری نگاہوں میں ناے و چنگ و رباب
English translation
If in the music or its strains tile message of decease is hid such music of harp, reed and lute in view of mine is quite forbid.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
ناے: بانسری۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “سرود حرام” (Unlawful Music) 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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