سید کی لوح تربت
ہو اگر ہاتھوں میں تیرے خامہء معجز رقمشیشہ دل ہو اگر تیرا مثال جام جم
English translation
If your hands do hold the miraculous pen; if your heart's cup is clear like the cup of Jam and his cooperators.
Jam: This is the legendary wine-cup of a pre-Islamic Persian emperor, Jamshâd, in which he could see the world.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 14 in “سید کی لوح تربت” (The Tomb-Stone Of Saiyyid) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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