شعاع امید
جس ساز کے نغموں سے حرارت تھی دلوں میںمحفل کا وہی ساز ہے بیگانہ مضراب
English translation
The harp whose music warmth to gathering lent with force quite spent the plectrum alien is'.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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.
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