ارتقا
سکوت شام سے تا نغمہ سحر گاہیہزار مرحلہ ہائے فعان نیم شبی
English translation
From the evening’s quietude till the morning’s song there are many a stage of the midnight wailing!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “ارتقا” (Evolution) 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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