غزل
فروغ مغربیاں خیرہ کر رہا ہے تجھےتری نظر کا نگہباں ہو صاحب 'مازاغ'
English translation
The progress great that West has made, has bedazzled your eyes a deal. May Prophet (S.A.W.) guard your precious sight; to vouch him God did Najm reveal!
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
ترقی۔ فروغخيرہ کرنا: آنکھوں کو چندھیانا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “غزل” (Ghazal) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵