ذوق و شوق
قافلہء حجاز میں ایک حسین بھی نہیںگرچہ ہے تاب دار ابھی گیسوئے دجلہ و فرات
English translation
The regions of Euphrates have waited, and waited in vain, for a martyr like Hussain, on a death-defying march.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 31 in “ذوق و شوق” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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