بلال
جس کا امیں ازل سے ہوا سینہء بلالمحکوم اس صدا کے ہیں شاہنشہ و فقیر
English translation
The call whose custodian the breast of Bilal since eternity,* became subservient to which call emperors as well as the indigent became!
* Allusion to Azan.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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.
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