قم باذن اللہ

غمیں نہ ہو کہ پراگندہ ہے شعور ترافرنگیوں کا یہ افسوں ہے، قم باذن اللہ

English translation

Don't mourn or weep for scattered brain, it is a spell that Franks have cast; this charm with case you can remove, act, act, anew and leave the past.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

افسوں: جادو۔پراگندہ: بکھرا ہوا، انتشار۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 3 in “⁨قم باذن اللہ⁩” (Arise by the Command of Allah) 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 poem

۳ / ۳