اے فرزند صحرا

سحرگاہان کہ روشن شد در و دشتصدا زد مرغی از شاخ نخیلیفروھل خیمہ اے فرزند صحراکہ نتوان زیست بے ذوق رحیلی

When all the desert sides were bright from dawn; from tree a bird tuned to a youth in lawn.
O desert’s son! Leave thy tent with haste; you lead a dull life which lacks journey taste.
(In the above three quatrains (twin couplets) the poet has addressed an immaculate son of the desert, a young Muslim, free from the impure taints of city life. In the next couplets he has addressed the upper strata, the intellectuals, the teachers and philosophers of the desert land.)

عرب را حق دلیل کاروان کردکہ او با فقر خود را امتحان کرداگر فقر تہی دستان غیور استجہانے را تہ و بالا توان کرد

The Truth chose Arab for caravan’s lead; on faqr since he tested his own self’s breed.
If the poor’s content with envy is green*; his growth can upset the whole world’s scene.
* Here green means flourishing, in ‘figurative’ sense. It means full of vigour as we say (keep a man’s memory green). He lives to a green old age, although looking green with envy also means pale or sickly looking.)

در ن شبہا خروش صبح فرداستکہ روشن از تجلیہای سیناستتن و جان محکم از باد در و دشتطلوع امتان از کوہ و صحراست

Those nights had the uproar for future’s dawn; being lit up with light of the Sinai’s lawn.
Thus the desert life made their brawns and brains; arid nations arose Crom those desert lanes.