بلال

لیکن بلال، وہ حبشی زادئہ حقیرفطرت تھی جس کی نور نبوت سے مستنیر

English translation

But Bilal (R.A.), that humble person with Negroid origin, whose nature had been brightened by the Prophethood’s (S.A.W.) Light.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 10 in “⁨بلال⁩” (Bilal 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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