خضرراہ

کیا سناتا ہے مجھے ترک و عرب کی داستاںمجھ سے کچھ پنہاں نہیں اسلامیوں کا سوز و ساز

English translation

The World of Islam:
Why are you relating to me the story of Turks and Arabs! Nothing of the grief and joys of Muslims is hidden from me.*

(This means that the whole history of the Muslim Ummah was known to Khizar A.S. It also refers to the history of secession of the Arab world from the fold of the Uthmaniya Khilafah and its aftermath.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

پنہاں: چھپا ہوا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 63 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

۶۳ / ۸۵