اﷲالصمد

قاید اسلامیان ہارون رشیدآنکہ نقفور آب تیغ او چشید

English translation

Harun Rashid, that captain of the Faith, whose blade to Nicephor of Byzance proved a deadly potion,

Urdu translation

عباسی فرمانروا ہارون الرشید جس کی تلوار کی کاٹ کا مزہ نقفور نے چکھا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 15 of 50 in “⁨اﷲالصمد⁩” (‘God, The Self-Subsistent’) in the section Summary of the Purport of the Poem, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Rumuz-e-Bekhudi (⁨رموزِ بیخودی⁩), published in 1918.

Read it in the poem

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