مسجد قوت الاسلام
چشم فطرت بھی نہ پہچان سکے گی مجھ کوکہ ایازی سے دگرگوں ہے مقام محمود
English translation
The Muslim's state has so declined that Nature fails to know at sight, because the slavish acts of Ayaz have put Mahmud's high rank in plight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
دگرگوں: منتشر۔ايازي: غلامی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 6 in “مسجد قوت الاسلام” (The Mosque of the Power of Islam) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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