غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید
ساز عشرت کی صدا مغرب کے ایوانوں میں سناور ایراں میں ذرا ماتم کی تیاری بھی دیکھ
English translation
Listen to sounds of pleasurable orchestra in West’s palaces and at the preparations for the mourning in Iran also look (allusion to the poor condition of Iran at that time).
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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 poem۱۶ / ۱۸