طلوع اسلام
میان شاخساراں صحبت مرغ چمن کب تک!ترے بازو میں ہے پرواز شاہین قہستانی
English translation
How long the companionship of garden’s birds inside the garden’s confines? Your wings are capable of the flight of Quhistan’s falcon!
(Quhistan: This is a tract of land in Kerman, now in Iran. The falcons of Quhistan are famous for the elegance and swiftness of flight.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 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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