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مہمان عزیز

Allama Iqbal
Bahrرمل مثمن سالم مخبون محذوف
فاعلاتن فَعِلاتن فَعِلاتن فَعِلن
arooz scans 3 of 4 lines

پرُ ہے افکار سے ان مَدرسے والوں کا ضمیر

خُوب و ناخُوب کی اس دَور میں ہے کس کو تمیز!

چاہیے خانۂ دل کی کوئی منزل خالی

شاید آجائے کہیں سے کوئی مہمانِ عزیزarooz could not scan this line

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: ur.wikisource.org (PD-Pakistan)

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.