شعاع آفتاب

تو کوئی چھوٹی سی بجلی ہے کہ جس کو آسماںکر رہا ہے خرمن اقوام کی خاطر جواں

English translation

Are you a small little lightning, which the sky is nurturing to fall on the harvest of nations.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 9 in “⁨شعاع آفتاب⁩” (The Sun’s Ray) 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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