اے پیر حرم
دل توڑ گئی ان کا دو صدیوں کی غلامیدارو کوئی سوچ ان کی پریشاں نظری کا
English translation
The foreign Yoke that ran for periods long has drained the blood or heart, so strong. Think of some cure, panacea or aught to bring to end their sight distraught.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
دارو: دوا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “اے پیر حرم” (To Elder Of The Shrine) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵