طلوع اسلام
غبار آلودئہ رنگ ونسب ہیں بال و پر تیرےتو اے مرغ حرم! اڑنے سے پہلے پرفشاں ہو جا
English translation
Your wings and plumage are polluted with race and colour’s dust; O Haram’s bird! Flutter your wings before you become ready for flight.
(Haram’s Bird: Muslim Ummah)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 52 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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