خضرراہ
اٹھ کہ اب بزم جہاں کا اور ہی اندازہےمشرق و مغرب میں تیرے دور کا آغاز ہے
English translation
Rise, as the world’s assembly has adopted different ways; in the East and the West is the beginning of your age.
(Allusion to the labour movements all over the world starting at that time: These movements are usually credited to communism and general awakening in the West. However, in reality they owe their origin to the awakening kindled by Islam and Muslim scholars in Spain and Iraq in the middle ages which brought about Reformation and Renaissance in Europe and which is an on-going movement of human liberation from the forces of undue domination.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 56 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.
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