خضرراہ
'کشتی مسکین، و 'جان پاک' و 'دیوار یتیم،علم موسی بھی ہے تیرے سامنے حیرت فروش
English translation
The ‘indigent’s boat’* the chaste soul*, the ‘orphan’s wall’,* even the knowledge of Mosa (A.S.) before you is in amazement.
* All allusions to the Holy Qur’an.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
کشتي مسکين و جان پاک و ديوار يتيم: یہ تینوں تلمیہات ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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