اے روح محمد

وہ لذت آشوب نہیں بحر عرب میںپوشیدہ جو ہے مجھ میں، وہ طوفان کدھر جائے

English translation

The Arabian Sea is quite bereft; of stir, there rise no waves and 'crest the tempest that in me is hid has no place to spread and skid.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

آشوب: شورش۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 4 in “⁨اے روح محمد⁩” (Invocation To The Soul Of Muhammad (S.A.W.)) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

۲ / ۴