یورپ اور یہود
تاریک ہے افرنگ مشینوں کے دھویں سےیہ وادی ایمن نہیں شایان تجلی
English translation
Dark is the white man’s country with the grime of engines, no valley that might see splendour descending on a burning tree:
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “یورپ اور یہود” (Europe And Jews) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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