شعاع آفتاب
تیرے مستوں میں کوئی جویائے ہشیاری بھی ہےسونے والوں میں کسی کو ذوق بیداری بھی ہے؟
English translation
Among your ecstatics is there any seeker of prudence also? Among the sleeping people is anyone with taste of awakening also?’
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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