سوامی رام تیرتھ

مٹ کے غوغا زندگی کا شورش محشر بنایہ شرارہ بجھ کے آتش خانہ آزر بنا

English translation

The life’s clamour on destruction became the Last Day’s tumult; the spark on being extinguished became Azar’s fire temple.
(Azar: Father of Ibrahim A.S. was a master sculptor and idol maker in Chaldea. Though he was not connected with the pre-Islamic fire temples of Iran this expression confers special excellence, in the material sense, on fire temples.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 6 in “⁨سوامی رام تیرتھ⁩” (Swamy Ram Tirath) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

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