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یک ذرۂ زمیں نہیں بے کار باغ کا

A couplet by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, with Roman Urdu and translations.

Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto), 1764

یک ذرۂ زمیں نہیں بے کار باغ کایاں جادہ بھی فتیلہ ہے لالے کے داغ کا

No speck of earth in the garden is useless:here even the path is the wick for the tulip's scar.

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalibمرزا اسد اللہ خاں غالبؔ
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Painting: Posthumous portrait of the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah (reigned 1719–1748) holding a falcon (recto), 1764. Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0.