خوشحال خاں کی وصیت

اڑا کر نہ لائے جہاں باد کوہمغل شہسواروں کی گرد سمند!

English translation

Of the dust blown by the Mughal cavalry, carried by the mountain wind.
Khushhal Khan Khattak was a famous Pashtu nationalist poet, who mobilized the tribes and formed a coalition to fight for freedom of Afghanistan frm Moghal emporers. Omly Afridis remained with him till last. About one hundred poems of his were translated in to English and published in London in 1862.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

Word meanings

گرد سمند: دوڑتے ہوئے گھوڑوں کی اڑائی ہوئی گرد۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 5 in “⁨خوشحال خاں کی وصیت⁩” (The Last Testament Of Khush-Hal Khan Khattak) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

Read it in the poem

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