None
کہا اقبال نے شیخ حرم سےتہ محراب مسجد سو گیا کونندا مسجد کی دیواروں سے آئیفرنگی بت کدے میں کھو گیا کون؟
English translation
Iqbal once said to Sheikh of Holy home: Who is sleeping now under the mosque a dome.
I heard a voice then from the mosque’s lane, who is lost now in the Tina’s lane.
(Tina is a dim of Christina. Teenic, Tina, Xina are diminutives of China.)
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “None” (Kaha Iqbal ne Sheikh Haram se) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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