میں اورتو
گلہء جفائے وفا نما کہ حرم کو اہل حرم سے ہےکسی بت کدے میں بیاں کروں تو کہے صنم بھی 'ہری ہری'
English translation
The complaint of friendly cruelty which the Haram has against its people; if I relate in some temple even the idol would call out ‘Hari Hari’.
(Hari: This is the name of the Hindu deity Vishno. The expression Hari Hari is used by the Hindus in the Indian sub-continent for expressing extreme surprise or disgust.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 9 in “میں اورتو” (Me And You) 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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