صبح چمن
شاید تو سمجھتی تھی وطن دور ہے میرااے قاصد افلاک! نہیں، دور نہیں ہے
English translation
The Flower: Perhaps you thought my land is far away, O courier from the sky, I say, ‘Nay, Nay’.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “صبح چمن” (Dawn Of The Park) 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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