شام کی سرحد سے رخصت ہے وہ رند لم یزل

وفد ہندستاں سے کرتے ہیں سرآغا خاں طلبکیا یہ چورن ہے پےء ہضم فلسطین و عراق؟

English translation

Sir Agha Khan * is demanding the delegation from India: Is this the digestive for devouring Iraq and Palestine.
* Reference to Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah the Agha Khan III who was a veteran statesman of the Indian sub-continent and played an important role in the politics of India, particularly that of Muslims, including the settlement of the Middle East problem, to which reference is made in the last line of the poem.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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 poem

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