ہمالہ
آتی ہے ندی فراز کوہ سے گاتی ہوئیکوثر و تسنیم کی موجوں کی شرماتی ہوئی
English translation
The brook is melodiously descending from the high land putting the waves of Kawthar* and Tasnâm* to embarrassment.
* Kawthar and Tasnâm: They are two fountains in Paradise. The name includes their streams also.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
فراز کوہ: پہاڑ کی بلندی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 24 in “ہمالہ” (Himalaya) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۱۶ / ۲۴