در حضور رسالت مآب

چون بصیری از تو میخواہم گشودتا بمن باز آید آن روزی کہ بود

English translation

I seek relief from you as did Busairi and pray that old days may come back again.
(Busairi, an Arab poet whose poem in praise of the Prophet is very famous and is known as Qasidah Burdah. It is related that the poet had an attack of paralysis during which be wrote this poem. He is said to have recovered miraculously.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

میں بھی بصیری کی طرح آپ (صلعم) سے شفا کا خواہاں ہوں؛ تاکہ میرے گذشتہ (صحت مند) دن واپس آ جائیں ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 45 of 62 in “⁨در حضور رسالت مآب⁩” (To The Holy Prophet S.A.W.), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (⁨پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

۴۵ / ۶۲