شام کی سرحد سے رخصت ہے وہ رند لم یزل
حضرت کرزن کو اب فکر مداوا ہے ضرورحکم برداری کے معدے میں ہے درد لایطاق
English translation
Curzon certainly would be concerned with remedial measures; in the belly of obedience has started unequaled convulsion.
(Curzon: He was the British Foreign Secretary during the period 1920-25 when an effort was made to settle the Middle East problem to the detriment of the Arabs and advantage of Jews. The part played by Sir Agha Khan III is referred to in the last verse.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
درد لايطاق: شدید درد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “شام کی سرحد سے رخصت ہے وہ رند لم یزل” (Shaam ki sarhad se rukhsat hai woh rind-e-lam-yazal) in the section Humorous Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴