نیا شوالا

اپنوں سے بیر رکھنا تو نے بتوں سے سیکھاجنگ و جدل سکھایا واعظ کو بھی خدا نے

English translation

You have learnt grudge with your own people from the idols; God also has taught fighting to Muslim preachers.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 9 in “⁨نیا شوالا⁩” (The New Temple) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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