شکوہ
بس رہے تھے یہیں سلجوق بھی، تورانی بھیاہل چیں چین میں، ایران میں ساسانی بھیاسی معمورے میں آباد تھے یونانی بھیاسی دنیا میں یہودی بھی تھے، نصرانی بھیپر ترے نام پہ تلوار اٹھائی کس نےبات جو بگڑی ہوئی تھی، وہ بنائی کس نے
English translation
Saljuqs (Turkish tribe which inhabited Central Asia that later accepted Islam and produced famous Khalâfahs like Salahuddin Ayyubi.) were living here and the Turanis (People inhabiting the tract north of the Oxus River) also; The Chinese in China and in Iran the Sasanis also. (Tribe inhabiting Persia that ruled over a large empire east of the Byzantine Empire across the Euphrates River. They were followers of Zoroaster and worshipped fire. They were defeated by the Muslims in 641 during the time of Second Caliph, Umar Farooq R.A.)
The Greeks were also living in the same habitation; in the same world were the Jews and the Christians also
But who raised the sword in Thy name? Who reclaimed the despoiled world in Thy name?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
معمورے: آبادی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 31 in “شکوہ” (Complaint) 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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