پھولوں کی شہزادی

کلی بولی، سریر آرا ہماری ہے وہ شہزادیدرخشاں جس کی ٹھوکر سے ہوں پتھر بھی نگیں بن کر

English translation

The flower bud said: ‘On the throne is that princess of ours by whose kick even stones become resplendent jewels.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 8 in “⁨پھولوں کی شہزادی⁩” (The Princess Of Flowers) 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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