گل نخستین

ہنوز ہمنفسی در چمن نمی بینمبہار می رسد و من گل نخستینم

English translation

I do not find a single comrade in the garden yet;
For springtime is approaching and I am an early rose.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 5 in “⁨گل نخستین⁩” (The First Rose) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

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