غلام قادر رہیلہ
بجھائے خواب کے پانی نے اخگر اس کی آنکھوں کےنظر شرما گئی ظالم کی درد انگیز منظر سے
English translation
The water of sleep extinguished the embers of his eyes; the tyrant’s sight became ashamed of the painful spectacle!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
اخگر: شعلہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 9 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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