خضرراہ
ہو صداقت کے لیے جس دل میں مرنے کی تڑپپہلے اپنے پیکر خاکی میں جاں پیدا کرے
English translation
The heart which is restless for death in defense of Truth should first life in his own body must create.
(This stanza is a description of the pre-requisites to be acquired by a person who is prepared to struggle in the cause of God and Islam.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 32 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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