بلال

خوشا وہ وقت کہ یثرب مقام تھا اس کاخوشا وہ دور کہ دیدار عام تھا اس کا

English translation

Happy was the age when Yathrib was his abode! How happy was the time when common was his Sight!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 of 13 in “⁨بلال⁩” (Bilal) 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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