طلوع اسلام
ہوئے احرار ملت جادہ پیما کس تجمل سےتماشائی شگاف در سے ہیں صدیوں کے زندانی
English translation
With what dignity did the free men of the millat march out? The centuries-old prisoners are only watching the spectacle through door’s crevices!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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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