طلوع اسلام

سرت گردم تو ہم قانون پیشیں سازدہ ساقیکہ خیل نغمہ پردازاں قطار اندر قطار آمد

English translation

I have surrendered my life to you, O cup-bearer; you should also sing the future’s songs; because in rows after rows groups of singing birds have come!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 67 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 poem

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