پیرو مرید

ہند میں اب نور ہے باقی نہ سوزاہل دل اس دیس میں ہیں تیرہ روز!

English translation

India now has no light of vision or yearning; men of illumined hearts have fallen on evil days.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

Word meanings

تيرہ روز: تاریک دن۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 51 of 52 in “⁨پیرو مرید⁩” (The Mentor And The Disciple) 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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