جنگ یر موک کاایک واقعہ
صف بستہ تھے عرب کے جوانان تیغ بندتھی منتظر حنا کی عروس زمین شام
English translation
The armed Arab youth were arrayed for battle; the bride of Syria’s land was waiting for myrtle.*
(*This metaphor is used for the blood about to be shed in the battle.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 10 in “جنگ یر موک کاایک واقعہ” (An Incident Of The Battle Of Yarmuk) 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 poem۱ / ۱۰