حدی
مہ ز سفر پا کشیددر پس تل آرمیدصبح ز مشرق دمیدجامۂ شب بر دریدباد بیابان وزیدتیزترک گام زن منزل ما دور نیست
English translation
Now the moon, her journey over, goes into her sand hill shelter, dawns a new day, so much brighter than the moon for all her splendour. Blows the desert wind of summer! Quicken your pace just a little; journey’s end is not far off.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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