شام و فلسطین
مقصد ہے ملوکیت انگلیس کا کچھ اورقصہ نہیں نارنج کا یا شہد و رطب کا
English translation
Some new design must have inflamed our English potentates; this is no story of oranges, honey or dates.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نارنج: نارنگی، سنگترہ۔رطب: چھوہارا ، کھجور۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “شام و فلسطین” (Syria And Palestine) 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.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۳