حدی
دلکش و زیباستیشاہد رعناستیروکش حوراستیغیرت لیلاستیدختر صحراستیتیزترک گام زن منزل ما دور نیست
English translation
O you bright and beautiful thing, you are lovely, you are charming, O you houri of my dreaming, you, the Layla of whom bards sing, you, the desert’s sprightly offspring! Quicken your pace just a little; journey’s end is not far off.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 8 in “حدی” (Chant of Camel-Driver) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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