غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید

کافروں کی مسلم آئینی کا بھی نظارہ کراور اپنے مسلموں کی مسلم آزاری بھی دیکھ

English translation

Look at the sight of the Muslim ways in the infidels’ life; and at your Muslims’ tormenting other Muslims also look.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 18 in “⁨غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید⁩” (The First of Shawwal or the Crescent of Eid) 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

۱۲ / ۱۸