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سوال

Allama Iqbal
Bahrہزج مثمن اخرب مکفوف محذوف
مفعول مفاعیل مفاعیل فعولن
arooz scans 3 of 4 lines

اک مفلس خود دار یہ کہتا تھا خدا سے

میں کر نہیں سکتا گلہء درد فقیریarooz could not scan this line

لیکن یہ بتا ، تیری اجازت سے فرشتے

کرتے ہیں عطا مرد فرومایہ کو میری ؟

A small circle marks a line arooz could not fit to the poem’s bahr. That is a limit of arooz, not of the poet: the text may leave an izafat unwritten, a word may be missing from arooz’s dictionary, or the line may use a licence arooz does not yet model.

Source: github.com (MIT (dataset); Iqbal (d. 1938) public domain)

Public domain — Allama Iqbal died in 1938

English translation as given in the Iqbal Demystified dataset. A translation is a separate work: the poem’s public-domain status does not extend to it.