دعا
پھر وادی فاراں کے ہر ذرے کو چمکا دےپھر شوق تماشا دے، پھر ذوق تقاضا دے
English translation
Again brighten up every speck of dust of the Valley of Faran; again; Longing for the Spectacle, taste for the asking grant.
(Allusion to the Holy Qur’an 7:142-145, particularly 143, in which the longing of Mosa A.S. to witness the countenance of God is described.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
مراد ہے تمام ملت اسلامیہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 10 in “دعا” (The Supplication) 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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