غلام قادر رہیلہ

یہ مقصد تھا مرا اس سے، کوئی تیمور کی بیٹیمجھے غافل سمجھ کر مار ڈالے میرے خنجر سے

English translation

It was my intention that some daughter of Taimur considering me unconscious might kill me with my own dagger.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 13 in “⁨غلام قادر رہیلہ⁩” (Ghulam Qadir Rohilla) 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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