شعاع آفتاب
برق آتش خو نہیں، فطرت میں گو ناری ہوں میںمہر عالم تاب کا پیغام بیداری ہوں میں
English translation
I am not fire-brand lightning, though by nature fire I am. Message of awakening from the world-illuminating sun I am!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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.
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