ایک آرزو
پچھلے پہر کی کوئل، وہ صبح کی موذنمیں اس کا ہم نوا ہوں، وہ میری ہم نوا ہو
English translation
The early dawn's cuckoo, that morning's mu’adhin; may my confidante he be, and may his confidante I be.
(Mu’adhin: The person calling Muslims to congregational prayers. This is a beautiful metaphor calling the cuckoo as the herald of the morning prayer time.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 of 20 in “ایک آرزو” (A Desire) 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 poem۱۶ / ۲۰