خضرراہ
خون اسرائیل آجاتا ہے آخر جوش میںتوڑ دیتا ہے کوئی موسی طلسم سامری
English translation
At last the blood of Israel boils up with anger; the spell of Samiri is smashed up by some Musa.
(The blood of Israel: This verse refers to the magic of the sorcerer Samiri. During the period between the prophethood of Musa A.S. and Isa A.S. the people of Israel were the inheritors of the vice-regency of God and they are treated like ‘Muslims’ in the Holy Qur’an. Samiri: This is an allusion to Holy Qur’an 20: 85, 95-97.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
طلسم سامري: سامری کا جادو۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 41 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 poem۴۱ / ۸۵