پیام صبح
طلسم ظلمت شب سورہء والنور سے توڑااندھیرے میں اڑایا تاج زر شمع شبستاں کا
English translation
It broke the spell of darkness of night’s talisman with Surah al-Noor.* It robbed the golden crown of bed-chamber's candle in the dark.
* Allusion to the Holy Qur'an 24:35 – It means that the real darkness of the night, which is a metaphor for the lack of knowledge of the unseen spiritual universe, is broken only with the Divine Light referred to in the above verse of the Holy Qur'an…)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 9 in “پیام صبح” (The Message Of Dawn) 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 poem۳ / ۹