نمود صبح
کیا سماں ہے جس طرح آہستہ آہستہ کوئیکھینچتا ہو میان کی ظلمت سے تیغ آب دار
English translation
What a beautiful sight it is as somebody slowly draws the bright sword from the sheath’s darkness.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 9 in “نمود صبح” (Morning’s Appearance) 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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