زمانہ فتنہ ہا ورد و بگذشت

زمانہ فتنہ ہا ورد و بگذشتخسان را در بغل پرورد و بگذشتدو صد بغداد را چنگیزی اوچو گور تیرہ بختان کرد و بگذشت

With times came unrest which passed so quick, it reared great satans and passed so quick.
Many Baghdads were raped by tyrants’ greal; it leveled their graves and passed like spate (reference to Changaiz Khan).

بسا کس اندوہ فردا کشیدندکہ دی مردند و فردا را ندیدندخنک مردان کہ در دامان امروزہزاران تازہ تر ہنگامہ چیدند

Those who had fears for the future days, they died yesterday before coming days.
Lucky are those whose dress of today, is booming with success day by day.
(Iqbal has taken the first two lines from a verse of Amir Khisro with basic thought: To whom future looms with fears and gloom, to mankind thus they bring only doom.)