مری نوا سے ہوئے زندہ عارف و عامی
حقیقت ابدی ہے مقام شبیریبدلتے رہتے ہیں انداز کوفی و شامی
English translation
The place of Husain, the Martyr great is fact, not bound to Space or Date, though the Syrians and the Kufis may often change their wont and way.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 6 in “مری نوا سے ہوئے زندہ عارف و عامی” (Meri nawa se hue zinda a'arif o aami) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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