ذوق و شوق
کیا نہیں اور غزنوی کارگہ حیات میںبیٹھے ہیں کب سے منتظر اہل حرم کے سومنات
English translation
The temples reared by holy men are waiting to be demolished: Is there no idol-breaker new-born; no Ghaznavi in the battlefield?
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 of 31 in “ذوق و شوق” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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