شکوہ

تو ہی کہہ دے کہ اکھاڑا در خیبر کس نےشہر قیصر کا جو تھا، اس کو کیا سر کس نےتوڑے مخلوق خداوندوں کے پیکر کس نےکاٹ کر رکھ دیے کفار کے لشکر کس نےکس نے ٹھنڈا کیا آتشکدہ ایراں کو؟کس نے پھر زندہ کیا تذکرہ یزداں کو؟

English translation

Tell us Thou, by whom was uprooted the gate of Khaibar; by whom was conquered the city which was Qaisar’s (Allusion to Constantinople)?
By whom were the images of created gods destroyed? By whom were the armies of infidels slaughtered?

By whom was the fire temple of Iran extinguished? By whom was the story of Yazd’an restored to life?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 9 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.

Read it in the poem

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