مسجد قوت الاسلام
کیوں مسلماں نہ خجل ہو تری سنگینی سےکہ غلامی سے ہوا مثل زجاج اس کا وجود
English translation
You have withstood the ruin of Time and kept your ground as firm as rock. Constraint has turned the Muslims weak; you put them all to shame and shock.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
مثل زجاج: شیشے کی مانند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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