طلوع اسلام

سر خاک شہیدے برگہاے لالہ می پاشمکہ خونش با نہال ملت ما سازگار آمد

English translation

I am sprinkling tulip petals at the martyr’s grave as his blood favorable to our nation’s sapling has become!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 71 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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