تاتاری کا خواب
مرا ایماں تو ہے باقی ولیکننہ کھا جائے کہیں شعلے کو خاشاک!
English translation
I cling to faith-but may its spark not soon lie quenched under these rubbish-heaps thick-scattered!
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 10 in “تاتاری کا خواب” (The Tartar's Dream) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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