جہاد
باطل کی فال و فر کی حفاظت کے واسطےیورپ زرہ میں ڈوب گیا دوش تا کمر
English translation
The West is bent to mount a guard on false, untrue pretentious show. It is armed with weapons dread, is clad in mail from top to toe.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
فال و فر: شان و شوکت۔دوش تا کمر: کندھے سے کمر تک۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 8 in “جہاد” (Holy War) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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