پیام
در دل ما کہ برین دیر کہن شبخون ریختآتشے بود کہ در خشک و تر انداختہ ایم
English translation
Once in our heart, which launched a night-raid on this ancient fane, there was a fire which we breathed into all things, dry or wet.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
ہمارے دل نے اس دیر کہن (دنیا) پر شبخون مارا، ایک آگ تھی جو ہم نے خشک و تر میں لگا دی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 of 45 in “پیام” (A Message (To The West)) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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