شعاع امید

چھوڑوں گی نہ میں ہند کی تاریک فضا کوجب تک نہ اٹھیں خواب سے مردان گراں خواب

English translation

The dark surroundings of Hind it won't forsal till natives sunk in slumber do not wake.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

گراں خواب: گہری نیند ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 11 of 17 in “⁨شعاع امید⁩” (Ray Of Hope) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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