طلوع اسلام

سرشک چشم مسلم میں ہے نیساں کا اثر پیداخلیل اللہ کے دریا میں ہوں گے پھر گہر پیدا

English translation

The effect of spring showers exists in the Muslim’s tears. Pearls are to be produced again in the ocean of Ibrahm A.S.
(Nesan: This is the spring rain. In Persian and Urdu legends its drops are believed to produce pearls in some bivalves. The metaphor means that the tears produced by the Muslims’ eyes as a result of the calamities they are facing will result in pearls, i.e. their apparent calamities will soon turn into successes.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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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