قطعہ

کل ایک شوریدہ خواب گاہ نبی پہ رو رو کے کہہ رہا تھاکہ مصر و ہندوستاں کے مسلم بنائے ملت مٹا رہے ہیں

English translation

Yesterday a desperate Lover was saying with wailing at the Prophet’s tomb: The Egyptian and Indian Muslims dare destroying the Millat’s foundation!
(The reference to Egypt and India is not indicative of this condition being restricted to these two countries. It has been used to meet poetic needs, which implied that the evil practice existed all over the Muslim world.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

شوريدہ: دیوانہ۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 4 in “⁨قطعہ⁩” (Stanza) 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 poem

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