غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
جس کو ہم نے آشنا لطف تکلم سے کیااس حریف بے زباں کی گرم گفتاری بھی دیکھ
English translation
Whom we got acquainted with the taste of eloquence at the haughty speech of that former speechless adversary look.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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.
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