خضرراہ
وہ نمود اختر سیماب پا ہنگام صبحیا نمایاں بام گردوں سے جبین جبرئیل
English translation
That appearance of the fast-moving star at the dawn; or the forehead of Jibrail manifest from the sky!
(This is a message of hope for the Muslim Ummah in the hour of their trial.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
نمود اختر سيماب پا: تیز رفتار ستارے کا نکلنا ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 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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