خضرراہ
لے رہا ہے مے فروشان فرنگستاں سے پارسوہ مےء سرکش حرارت جس کی ہے مینا گداز
English translation
From the wine sellers of Europe Iran is purchasing that strong wine by whose heat the decanter is melted.*
(Reference to the inordinate Western influence in the politics and, still worse, in social life of the people in the Muslim world.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
سرکش: تند و تیز۔مينا گداز: صراحی کو پگھلا دینے والی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 66 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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