بلال

گری وہ برق تری جان ناشکیبا پرکہ خندہ زن تری ظلمت تھی دست موسی پر

English translation

Such a lightning struck your impatient soul that your darkness was scoffing at the Musa's palm.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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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