طارق کی دعا
خیاباں میں ہے منتظر لالہ کب سےقبا چاہیے اس کو خون عرب سے
English translation
Red flower in the flower-bed (Spain) is waiting since long; it requires an apron made of Arab blood
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
خياباں: پھولوں کی کیاری۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 10 in “طارق کی دعا” (Tariq’s Prayer) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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