ایک حاجی مدینے کے راستے میں
خنجر رہزن اسے گویا ہلال عید تھا'ہائے یثرب' دل میں، لب پر نعرہ توحید تھا
English translation
The robber’s dagger was the Eid’s crescent to him. ‘Ah Yathrib’ was within heart, Tawhid’s slogan was on the lips.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 9 in “ایک حاجی مدینے کے راستے میں” (A Pilgrim On His Way To Madinah) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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