سسلي جزيرہ صقليہ
تو کبھی اس قوم کی تہذیب کا گہوارہ تھاحسن عالم سوز جس کا آتش نظارہ تھا
English translation
You were the cradle of that nation's civilization once, whose universal beauty was the object for spectacle.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 17 in “سسلي جزيرہ صقليہ” (The Island Of Sicily) 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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