محاصرہ ادرنہ

ذمی کا مال لشکر مسلم پہ ہے حرامفتوی تمام شہر میں مشہور ہو گیا

English translation

‘Dhimmi’s’ wealth is forbidden for the Muslim army’; this edict was published throughout the whole city.
(Dhimmi: This is a non-Muslim who lives in an Islamic State and pays Jizyah, which is a tax which exempts him from military service and makes the Islamic government responsible for his protection and welfare.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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.

Read it in the poem

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