شعاع امید
پھر میرے تجلی کدہ دل میں سما جاوچھوڑو چمنستان و بیابان و در و بام
English translation
Be lost in fount of light that gave you birth, forsake the park, the waste, the roof and earth’.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
در و بام: دیواریں اور چھت، مراد ہے آبادیاں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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