دختران ملت
ز شام ما برون ور سحر رابہ قر ن باز خوان اہل نظر راتو میدانی کہ سوز قرأت تودگرگون کرد تقدیر عمر را
English translation
From my evening’s dusk get a dawn new; to seeing eyes read the Koran anew.
From thy reading’s flame you know that fate; had totally changed Omar the Great.*
* Before embracing Islam, Hazrat Omar (R.A.) heard that her sister alongwith her husband had embraced Islam. In rage he went to her house and heard her reciting the Holy Quran, which melted his heart, and he too joined the fold of Islam.
Urdu translation
پھر قرآن پاک کی تلوار سے اہل نظر کو متاثر کر کے؛ ہماری شام سے سحر پیدا کر۔تو جانتی ہے کہ تیرے سوز قرآءت نے؛ حضرت عمر (رضی اللہ ) کی تقدیر بدل دی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 8 in “دختران ملت” (To Daughters Of The Nation), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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