خضرراہ

بیچتا ہے ہاشمی ناموس دین مصطفیخاک و خوں میں مل رہا ہے ترکمان سخت کوش

English translation

The Holy Prophet’s progeny is selling his din’s honour and the struggling Turk is smeared in dust and blood *!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 14 of 85 in “⁨خضرراہ⁩” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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 poem

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