ہمالہ
برف نے باندھی ہے دستار فضیلت تیرے سرخندہ زن ہے جو کلاہ مہر عالم تاب پر
English translation
Snow has endowed you with the turban of honour* which scoffs at the crown of the world-illuminating sun.
* The successful completion of education in the institutions of higher learning in the Muslim world culminates in a turban being conferred on the scholar as an insignia of his academic degree. It corresponds with the cap and academic hood in the Western world.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
دستار فضیلت: برتری کی پگڑی۔کلاہ مہر عالم تاب: دنیا کو روشن کرنے والے سورج کی ٹوپی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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 poem۶ / ۲۴