شبلی و حالی

شبلی کو رو رہے تھے ابھی اہل گلستاںحالی بھی ہوگیا سوئے فردوس رہ نورد

English translation

The garden’s inhabitants were still mourning Shibli when Hali also became a traveler towards Paradise.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

سوئے فردوس رہ نورد: جنت کی طرف روانہ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 of 10 in “⁨شبلی و حالی⁩” (Shibli And Hali) 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

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