غلام قادر رہیلہ
دیا اہل حرم کو رقص کا فرماں ستم گر نےیہ انداز ستم کچھ کم نہ تھا آثار محشر سے
English translation
The tyrant ordered members of the royal household to dance. This tyranny was no less than the Judgment Day’s signal.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
آثار محشر: قیامت کی نشانیاں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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