خضرراہ
پھونک ڈالے یہ زمین و آسمان مستعاراور خاکستر سے آپ اپنا جہاں پیدا کرے
English translation
Should burn down this borrowed universe and from the ashes his own universe should create.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
خاکستر: راکھ۔مستعار: مانگے ہوے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 33 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.
Read it in the poem۳۳ / ۸۵