ہمالہ
تجھ میں کچھ پیدا نہیں دیرینہ روزی کے نشاںتو جواں ہے گردش شام و سحر کے درمیاں
English translation
Your condition does not show any signs of old age; you are young in the midst of day and night's alternation*.
* The alternation of the day and night is what produces time. This verse also alludes to the relative recentness of the Himalayas in terms of geological ages. This range came into existence 5-10 million years ago in the Pliocene epoch.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
دیرینہ روزی: لمبی عمر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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