طلوع اسلام
گزر جا بن کے سیل تند رو کوہ و بیاباں سےگلستاں راہ میں آئے تو جوئے نغمہ خواں ہو جا
English translation
Transcend mountains and deserts like a furious flood; if there be a garden in your path, become a melodious brook.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 55 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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