ابر

ہوا کے زور سے ابھرا، بڑھا، اڑا بادلاٹھی وہ اور گھٹا، لو! برس پڑا بادل

English translation

With the wind's force the cloud rose, advanced and flowed; some dark clouds rose up, the clouds burst open into rain!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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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