کفر واسلام
آتش نمرود ہے اب تک جہاں میں شعلہ ریزہوگیا آنکھوں سے پنہاں کیوں ترا سوز کہن
English translation
The fire of Namrud* is still ablaze in the world; why your Love’s old fire has been hidden from the eye’?
* Though the Holy Qur’an does not say so it is universally believed in Islamic literature that Namrud was the king who ordered that Ibrahim A.S. be thrown into the fire).
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “کفر واسلام” (Infidelity And Islam) 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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