سسلي جزيرہ صقليہ
اک جہان تازہ کا پیغام تھا جن کا ظہورکھا گئی عصر کہن کو جن کی تیغ ناصبور
English translation
Whose appearance was the message of birth of a new world; whose restless sword destroyed the whole ancient world?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
عصر کہن: پرانا زمانہ۔تيغ ناصبور: بے صبر تلوار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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