گورستان شاہی
عرصۂ پیکار میں ہنگامۂ شمشیر کیاخون کو گرمانے والا نعرۂ تکبیر کیا
English translation
Neither the tumult of the sword in the battle; nor the cry of blood warming Takbir!
(Takbir: It is the Muslim creed which is ‘Allah-u-Akbar’ (God is Great). It is usually called in battles and other difficult times.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 of 58 in “گورستان شاہی” (The Royal Cemetery) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۲۳ / ۵۸