ابر کوہسار

کبھی صحرا، کبھی گلزار ہے مسکن میراشہر و ویرانہ مرا، بحر مرا، بن میرا

English translation

Now the wilderness, now the rose garden is my abode, city and wilderness are mine, ocean is mine, forest is mine.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 12 in “⁨ابر کوہسار⁩” (The Cloud On The Mountain) 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

۲ / ۱۲