غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
غرہء شوال! اے نور نگاہ روزہ دارآ کہ تھے تیرے لیے مسلم سراپا انتظار
English translation
O the pride of Shawwal! O the fasting person’s darling! Come! As Muslims were very anxiously waiting for you.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
غرہء شوال: شوال کے مہینے کا ہلال۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 18 in “غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید” (The First of Shawwal or the Crescent of Eid) 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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