میں اورتو

کوئی ایسی طرز طواف تو مجھے اے چراغ حرم بتا!کہ ترے پتنگ کو پھر عطا ہو وہی سرشت سمندری

English translation

O Haram’s lamp tell me some such method of circumambulation; which would again grant to your moth the same salamander’s nature!
(Salamander: This is a mythical creature supposed to be living and flourishing in fire as well as liking it.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 9 in “⁨میں اورتو⁩” (Me And You) 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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