طلوع اسلام
بیا پیدا خریدارست جان ناتوانے را"پس از مدت گذار افتاد بر ما کاروانے را"
English translation
Come, a purchaser has appeared for this frail soul: ‘After a long time a caravan has arrived at our place.
(Allusion to the Holy Qur’an 12:19. The arrival of the caravan at the well into which Yusuf A.S. had been thrown was the turning point in his life. In the same way the present time, when the Western world is losing its credibility, is the turning point in the life of the Muslim Ummah.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 64 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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