اے فرزند صحرا
سحرگاہان کہ روشن شد در و دشتصدا زد مرغی از شاخ نخیلیفروھل خیمہ اے فرزند صحراکہ نتوان زیست بے ذوق رحیلی
English translation
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.)
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Urdu translation
صبح کے وقت جب آبادی و صحرا میں روشنی پھیل گئی؛ تو درخت کی شاخ سے پرندے نے آواز دی: اے فرزند صحرا! خیمہ چھوڑ ! ذوق سفر کے بغیر کوئی زندگی نہیں ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “اے فرزند صحرا” (O Son Of The Desert), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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