خضرراہ
آگ ہے، اولاد ابراہیم ہے، نمرود ہےکیا کسی کو پھر کسی کا امتحاں مقصود ہے!
English translation
There is fire, there is Ibrahim’s progeny; there is Namrud! Does someone desire someone’s test again.*
(Reference to the world-wide calamities for the Asian and African countries resulting from the victories of the Western countries to which reference has been made in pervious notes; of special concern to Allamah Iqbal was the plight of the Muslim world to which special reference is made in this verse.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
اولاد ابراہيم: مراد ہے مسلمان۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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 poem۱۵ / ۸۵