خضرراہ
نغمہ بیداری جمہور ہے سامان عیشقصہ خواب آور اسکندر و جم کب تلک
English translation
Music of masses’ renaissance is a means of pleasure; the soporific tale of Alexander and Jam how long?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 58 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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