طلوع اسلام
زمیں سے نوریان آسماں پرواز کہتے تھےیہ خاکی زندہ تر، پائندہ تر، تابندہ تر نکلے
English translation
Angels, the denizens of celestial world, were saying to the earth: These earthly men emerged more lively, more virulent, more splendid!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 46 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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