غرہ شوال یا ہلال عید

جس علم کے سائے میں تیغ آزما ہوتے تھے ہمدشمنوں کے خون سے رنگیں قبا ہوتے تھے ہم

English translation

The banner under whose shade we wielded our swords; under whose shade we used the blood of our enemies.
(The banner: Allusion to the inclusion of the crescent on the flags of Muslim countries as an insignia of Islam and its rising power.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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

۴ / ۱۸