بلال

نظر تھی صورت سلماں ادا شناس تریشراب دید سے بڑھتی تھی اور پیاس تری

English translation

Full of Intellection like Salman was your insight; the wine of sight used to increase your thirst.
(Salman Abu Abd Allah Farisi (R.A.) The famous Companion of the Holy Prophet S.A.W. He was of Persian origin. Early in his life he left his home in search of the Truth. First he accepted Christianity, studied its literature deeply and persevered through all the hardships he had to encounter. He was caught by an Arab tribe and sold to a Jew. Later, the Holy Prophet S.A.W. purchased him and set him free. Salman accepted Islam after the emigration of the Holy Prophet S.A.W. to Madinah Munawwarah…)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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.

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