دعا
اس دور کی ظلمت میں ہر قلب پریشاں کووہ داغ محبت دے جو چاند کو شرما دے
English translation
In the darkness of this age to every perturbed heart that mark of Love which may embarrass the moon grant.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ظلمت: اندھیرا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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