چاند

میرے ویرانے سے کوسوں دور ہے تیرا وطنہے مگر دریائے دل تیری کشش سے موجزن

English translation

Though miles away from my abode is your homeland; tumultuous like the sea is my heart with your attraction.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 13 in “⁨چاند⁩” (The Moon) 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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