شفاخانہ حجاز
دارالشفا حوالی لبطحا میں چاہیےنبض مریض پنجہ عیسی میں چاہیے
English translation
The hospital in the suburbs of Battha* is needed in the hands of Issa the patient’s pulse is needed.’
(*This is another name of Makkah Mu‘azzamah.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 8 in “شفاخانہ حجاز” (The Hospital Of Hijaz) 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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