ایک آرزو

پھولوں کو آئے جس دم شبنم وضو کرانےرونا مرا وضو ہو، نالہ مری دعا ہو

English translation

When the dew may come to perform the flowers’ ablution’ may wailing my supplication, weeping my ablution be.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 18 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 poem

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