غلام قادر رہیلہ
رکھا خنجر کو آگے اور پھر کچھ سوچ کر لیٹاتقاضا کر رہی تھی نیند گویا چشم احمر سے
English translation
He put the dagger in front, and lied down in some thought: Sleep was demanding rest from the red eyes so to say.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
چشم احمر: سرخ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 of 13 in “غلام قادر رہیلہ” (Ghulam Qadir Rohilla) 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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