خضرراہ
اور وہ پانی کے چشمے پر مقام کارواںاہل ایماں جس طرح جنت میں گرد سلسبیل
English translation
And that halting of the caravan at the stream bank; as the believers’ gathering round the Salsabil!
(Salsabil: This is a spring in the Paradise and the stream ensuing from it.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سلسبيل: جنت کی ایک نہر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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