تہذیب حاضر
حرارت ہے بلاکی بادئہ تہذیب حاضر میںبھڑک اٹھا بھبوکا بن کے مسلم کا تن خاکی
English translation
(Based on a Verse of Faizi)
Extremely excessive is the heat of current civilization’s wine; the clay body of the Muslim has exploded into flames.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
بادئہ تہذیب حاضر: موجودہ تہذیب کی شراب۔بھبوکا بن کے: شعلہ بن کر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 8 in “تہذیب حاضر” (The Present Civilization) 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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