طلوع اسلام
وہ حکمت ناز تھا جس پر خرو مندان مغرب کوہوس کے پنچہ خونیں میں تیغ کارزاری ہے
English translation
The science which was the pride of the West’s sages is the battle-sword in the blood-stained clutches of greed!
(Allusion to the atrocities to and usurpation of the wealth of non-European peoples, especially Muslims by the Europe’s imperialist nations during their entire history)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 59 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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