لاہور و کراچی
ان شہیدوں کی دیت اہل کلیسا سے نہ مانگقدر و قیمت میں ہے خوں جن کا حرم سے بڑھ کر
English translation
Don't ask the rulers of this land to grant blood price for martyred band. Their blood is precious and divine like precincts of the Holy Shrine.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
دیت: خون بہا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “لاہور و کراچی” (Lahore And Karachi) 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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