ایک حاجی مدینے کے راستے میں
قافلہ لوٹا گیا صحرا میں اور منزل ہے دوراس بیاباں یعنی بحر خشک کا ساحل ہے دور
English translation
The caravan has been robbed in wilderness and the destination is far; the coast of this desolation that is this dry ocean is far.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 9 in “ایک حاجی مدینے کے راستے میں” (A Pilgrim On His Way To Madinah) 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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