در حضور رسالت مآب

اے کہ دادی کرد را سوز عرببندۂ خود را حضور خود طلب

English translation

You blessed a Kurd with fluency in the Arabic tongue, call your slave into your presence:
(It is related that a Kurd had great love for the Prophet One day be felt grieved at being unacquainted with Arabic, the language of his beloved. How could he claim, he thought, to love the Prophet when he could not speak to him in his own language? Next day he was miraculously granted know-ledge of Arabic.)

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

آپ (صلعم) نے کردوں کو عربوں کا سوز عطا فرمایا؛ اپنے اس (ہندی) غلام کو بھی اپنے حضور میں طلب فرمائیے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 57 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

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