محاصرہ ادرنہ
گرد صلیب گرد قمر حلقہ زن ہوئیشکری حصار درنہ میں محصور ہو گیا
English translation
The dust of the Cross circled round the Crescent; Shakree became besieged in the fortress of Adrianople.
(Shakree: He was the commander of the army of the Uthmaniyah Khilafah defending Adrianople.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 8 in “محاصرہ ادرنہ” (The Siege Of Adrianople) 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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