عشق اور موت

اٹھی اول اول گھٹا کالی کالیکوئی حور چوٹی کو کھولے کھڑی تھی

English translation

For the first time dark black clouds were appearing as if some Houri of Paradise with open hair was standing.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 of 23 in “⁨عشق اور موت⁩” (Love And Death) 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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