خضرراہ

ملک ہاتھوں سے گیا ملت کی آنکھیں کھل گئیںحق ترا چشمے عطا کردست غافل در نگر

English translation

‘The homeland has been lost; the nation has been jolted O negligent one, look deep as God has granted you insight!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

اللہ نے تجھے آنکھیں عطا کی ہیں، غافل (آنکھیں کھول) اور دیکھ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 70 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 poem

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