خضرراہ
کیوں تعجب ہے مری صحرا نوردی پر تجھےیہ تگا پوئے دمادم زندگی کی ہے دلیل
English translation
The response of Khizar (wandering in deserts):
Why are you amazed at my wandering in the deserts? This incessant toil is demonstration of life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
دمادم: مسلسل۔تگا پوئے: دوڑ دھوپ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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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