کافر و مومن
کل ساحل دریا پہ کہا مجھ سے خضر نےتو ڈھونڈ رہا ہے سم افرنگ کا تریاق؟
English translation
Thus Khizr to me did speak last day on river banks. ‘Are you in search of cure for venom spread by Franks’?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
سم: زہر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “کافر و مومن” (The Infidel And Believer) 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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