ہمالہ

لیلی شب کھولتی ہے آ کے جب زلف رسادامن دل کھینچتی ہے آبشاروں کی صدا

English translation

When the night's Lailah unfurls her long hair; the sound of water-falls allures the heart.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 19 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 poem

۱۹ / ۲۴