آواز غیب

تو ظاہر و باطن کی خلافت کا سزاوارکیا شعلہ بھی ہوتا ہے غلام خس و خاشاک

English translation

To thy heritage, goes the caliphate, can flame be tied to tuft and hays fate.

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

Word meanings

خس و خاشاک: گھاس پھوس۔سزاوار: لائق۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 7 in “⁨آواز غیب⁩” (Mysterious Voice) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (⁨ارمغانِ حجاز⁩), published in 1938.

Read it in the poem

۳ / ۷