طلوع اسلام
وہ چشم پاک بیں کیوں زینت برگستواں دیکھےنظر آتی ہے جس کو مرد غازی کی جگر تابی
English translation
Why should the eye used to chaste things see coat of arms when it is able to see the valour of the Ghazi’s * soul!
* Muslim fighter in the cause of God)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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