خطاب بہ مہر عالمتاب
اے امیر خاور اے مہر منیرمی کنی ہر ذرہ را روشن ضمیر
English translation
O lord of the East, O shining Sun! Thou illuminest the heart of every mote of dust.
(Raushan zamir: One who can see into the heart of things; one whose heart is so illumined that everything can be seen in it. This is the epithet usually applied to God-intoxicated people who are credited with having the miraculous power of foreseeing and foretelling events.)
Translated by Jamil Naqvi
Urdu translation
اے آسمان کے شہزادے! اے آفتاب درخشاں! تو ہر ذرہ کے اندرون کو چمکا دیتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 18 in “خطاب بہ مہر عالمتاب” (Address To The World-Illuminating Sun), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
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