طلوع اسلام
ضمیر لالہ میں روشن چراغ آرزو کر دےچمن کے ذرے ذرے کو شہید جستجو کر دے
English translation
O God, light the candle of Longing in the tulip’s heart; make every speck of garden’s dust a martyr searching for the Truth.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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