نوید صبح

کھینچ کر خنجر کرن کا، پھر ہو سرگرم ستیزپھر سکھا تاریکی باطل کو آداب گریز

English translation

Pulling the dagger of sun’s ray get busy again in the fight! Again teacher of escape’s rules to falsehood’s darkness be.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

ستيز: لڑائی، جنگ۔آداب گريز: بھاگنے کے طریقے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 8 in “⁨نوید صبح⁩” (The Good News Of The Dawn) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۶ / ۸