مشرق
مری نوا سے گریبان لالہ چاک ہوانسیم صبح، چمن کی تلاش میں ہے ابھی
English translation
By strains I sing at early morn, the vest of tulip has been torn.
Breeze has been roaming since the dark, but has not found a single park.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “مشرق” (The East) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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