طلوع اسلام
ہوئے مدفون دریا زیر دریا تیرنے والےطمانچے موج کے کھاتے تھے، جو، بن کر گہر نکلے
English translation
Those accustomed to swimming under the sea were buried under the sea. Those who bored ocean waves’ dashes emerged as pearls!
(Allusion to the inability of submarines, invented by Germans, to win the war)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 42 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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