طلوع اسلام
ہمارا نرم رو قاصد پیام زندگی لایاخبر دیتی تھیں جن کو بجلیاں وہ بے خبر نکلے
English translation
Our slow-moving messenger has brought the message of life: Those who got electric messages emerged as uninformed!
(Allusion to spiritual persons whose spiritual powers attain what arms and ammunition cannot.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 44 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.
Read it in the poem۴۴ / ۷۲