کلی
تیرے جلوے کا نشیمن ہو مرے سینے میںعکس آباد ہو تیرا مرے آئینے میں
English translation
May the abode of your manifestations be in my heart! May your reflection flourish in the mirror of my breast!
(This and the remaining verses are the spontaneous expression of Allamah Iqbal's feelings of Love for God and request to Him to appear in tangible form instead of through His signs, like the sun. In this poem ‘My sun’ means God.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 9 in “کلی” (The Flower Bud) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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