طلوع اسلام
حنا بند عروس لالہ ہے خون جگر تیراتری نسبت براہیمی ہے، معمار جہاں تو ہے
English translation
Your life-blood adorns with myrtle the bride called tulip! Your origin is from Ibrahim, you are the world’s architect!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 of 72 in “طلوع اسلام” (The Renaissance Of Islam) 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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