غلام قادر رہیلہ

یونہی کچھ دیر تک محو نظر آنکھیں رہیں اس کیکیا گھبرا کے پھر آزاد سر کو بار مغفر سے

English translation

For some time his eyes remained thus absorbed in seeing; in confusion he freed his head from the load of Mighfar.
(Mighfar: This is the head covering worn under the helmet. It is also used as a helmet.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

مغفر: لڑائی میں سر پر پہننے والی فولادی ٹوپی۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 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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