آفتاب

اے آفتاب، ہم کو ضیائے شعور دےچشم خرد کو اپنی تجلی سے نور دے

English translation

O Sun! Bestow on us the light of wisdom; bestow your luster's light on the intellect's eye.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 10 in “⁨آفتاب⁩” (The Sun) 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

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