غزل
ترے نیستاں میں ڈالا مرے نغمہ سحر نےمری خاک پے سپر میں جو نہاں تھا اک شرارہ
English translation
The dormant spark that buried lay in my extinguished clay since long has set afire your bed of reeds, assuming form of morning song.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
پے سپر: افسردہ، بجھی ہوئی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “غزل” (Ghazal) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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