خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام
غرض میں کیا کہوں تجھ سے کہ وہ صحرا نشیں کیا تھےجہاں گیر و جہاں دار و جہاں بان و جہاں آرا
English translation
In short what should I tell you what those wanderers in wilderness were? They were world conquerors, world rulers, world administrators, and world adorners.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 12 in “خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام” (Addressed To The Youth Of Islam) 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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