طفل شیر خوار

تیرا آئینہ تھا آزاد غبار آرزوآنکھ کھلتے ہی چمک اٹھا شرار آرزو

English translation

Your mirror had been free of want's dust cloud; with eye's opening has been flashed the want's spark.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

آزاد غبار آرزو: آرزو کی گرد سے آزاد۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 12 in “⁨طفل شیر خوار⁩” (The Suckling Baby) 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

۵ / ۱۲