اشاعت اسلام فرنگستان میں
اگر قبول کرے، دین مصطفی، انگریزسیاہ روز مسلماں رہے گا پھر بھی غلام
English translation
If Franks embraced the Muslim Faith, revealed to Mustafa (S.A.W.), sundry and all: There won't be change in Muslim's state, the wretch would still remain a thrall.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
سياہ روز: بد بخت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “اشاعت اسلام فرنگستان میں” (Propagation of Islam in the West) 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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