خضرراہ
چھوڑ کر آبادیاں رہتا ہے تو صحرا نوردزندگی تیری ہے بے روز و شب و فردا دوش
English translation
Leaving habitations you remain wandering in wilderness; no day and night, no yesterday and tomorrow is in your life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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