غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
آشنا پرور ہے قوم اپنی، وفا آئیں تراہے محبت خیز یہ پیراہن سیمیں ترا
English translation
Our nation is cherisher of friends, fidelity is your way; this silvery shirt of yours is the propagator of love.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
پيراہن سيميں: چاندی جیسا لباس۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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