خضرراہ

کھول کر آنکھیں مرے آئینہء گفتار میںآنے والے دور کی دھندلی سی اک تصویر دیکھ

English translation

With open eyes in the mirror or my discourses; you should watch a faint image of the coming age.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 83 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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