بلاد اسلامیہ
دل کو تڑپاتی ہے اب تک گرمی محفل کی یادجل چکا حاصل مگر محفوظ ہے حاصل کی یاد
English translation
Memory of assembly’s warmth still renders the heart restless; the splendor has been burnt but memory of the splendor is still secure.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 22 in “بلاد اسلامیہ” (The Islamic Cities) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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