غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
تیری پیشانی پہ تحریر پیام عید ہےشام تیری کیا ہے، صبح عیش کی تمید ہے
English translation
The message of Eid is written on your forehead; your evening is the preface to the dawn of pleasure.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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