فرشتوں کاگیت

جس کھیت سے دہقاں کو میسر نہیں روزیاس کھیت کے ہر خوشہ گندم کو جلا دو

English translation

Find the field whose harvest is no peasant's daily bread: Garner in the furnace every ripening ear of wheat!

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 of 13 in “⁨فرشتوں کاگیت⁩” (Song of the Angels) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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