جواب شکوہ

مثل انجم افق قوم پہ روشن بھی ہوئےبت ہندی کی محبت میں برہمن بھی ہوئےشوق پرواز میں مہجور نشیمن بھی ہوئےبے عمل تھے ہی جواں، دین سے بدظن بھی ہوئےان کو تہذیب نے ہر بند سے آزاد کیالا کے کعبے سے صنم خانے میں آباد کیا

English translation

Like stars on the nation’s horizon you appeared also; in the Indian idol’s love you became a Brahman also.
In the love for flying you became separated from the nest also; indolent were the youth already, became suspicious of Din also.

They have been freed from every restraint by ‘civilization’; having been brought from Ka‘bah, they have been settled in the temple

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

مہجور: بچھڑے ہوے' آشیانے سے جدا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 23 of 36 in “⁨جواب شکوہ⁩” (The Response To The 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

۲۳ / ۳۶