ابر

اٹھی پھر آج وہ پورب سے کالی کالی گھٹاسیاہ پوش ہوا پھر پہاڑ سربن کا

English translation

Today dark clouds have appeared from the east again; Mount Sarban* has become covered with darkness again.
* This is a hill in Bhimbar, now in Azad Kashmir. The poem is a spontaneous outburst of his feelings after witnessing some rain storm.) However, according to Urdu commentary by Asrar Zaidi Sarban is a mountain near Abottabad and the poem was written there.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 7 in “⁨ابر⁩” (The Cloud) 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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