طلوع اسلام
عقابی شان سے جھپٹے تھے جو، بے بال و پر نکلےستارے شام کے خون شفق میں ڈوب کر نکلے
English translation
Those who had attacked like eagle emerged as wingless; the evening stars after diving into dusk’s blood emerged shining!
(Reference to the defeat of Germans in World War I, which rendered them powerless)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 41 of 72 in “طلوع اسلام” (The Renaissance Of Islam) 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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