سید کی لوح تربت

اس چمن کے نغمہ پیرائوں کی آزادی تو دیکھشہر جو اجڑا ہوا تھا اس کی آبادی تو دیکھ

English translation

Look at the freedom of this garden's warblers. Look at the prosperity of those once desolate.
* This and the following verse allude to the beginning of the renaissance of the Indian Muslims resulting from the efforts of Sir Saiyyid Ahmad Khan.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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.

Read it in the poem

۲ / ۱۴