صدیق

اے تجھ سے دیدئہ مہ و انجم فروغ گیر!اے تیری ذات باعث تکوین روزگار!

English translation

‘O you who give light to the eyes of the moon and the stars; who was made the reason for creation of the universe;
(Allusion to the Hadith-i-Qudsi according to which God would not have created the universe if He had not intended to create the person of the Holy Prophet S.A.W).

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 13 in “⁨صدیق⁩” (Abu Bakr Siddiq R.A.) 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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