ارتقا
ستیزہ کار رہا ہے ازل سے تا امروزچراغ مصطفوی سے شرار بولہبی
English translation
Struggle has continued from eternity till the present day between the lamp of Mustafvi and the spark of Bu Lahab.’
(He was one of the uncles of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) but was still one of the strongest enemies of him and of Islam.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “ارتقا” (Evolution) 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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