خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام
گنوا دی ہم نے جو اسلاف سے میراث پائی تھیثریا سے زمیں پر آسماں نے ہم کو دے مارا
English translation
We have wasted the heritage obtained from our ancestors. The sky has thrown us down from the Thurayyah * to the earth.
* Thurayyah called the Pleides in English and is a collection of seven stars in the constellation Taurus.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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