بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است
نہال ترک ز برق فرنگ بار آوردظہور مصطفوی را بہانہ بولہبی است
English translation
The tree of the Turks has borne fruit because it was struck by the lightning of the West. The advent of the Chosen One took place because of Abu Lahabism.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “بشاخ زندگی ما نمی ز تشنہ لبی است” (Bishakh-e-zindagi ma nami ze tashn-e-labi ast) in the section The Wine Remaining, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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