Rise of Islam  Part- 1

(Iqbal’s Tulu-e-Islam penned in 1922)

Stars’ flickering is the clear proof of the bright morning,
The ‘sun’ rose from the horizon, gone is the time of undesired rest,

The life infusing blood ran into the veins of the dead East,
Ibn Sina and Farabi cannot understand this secret,

The ‘hurricane of the west’ turned  Muslims into real Muslims,
The dashing waves of the river do rearing of the pearls,

The Momin is about to be given from the court of the Lord,
Grandeur of the Turkoman, intelligence of the Hindus, fluency of the Arabs,

O nightingale, if some influence of dream is left in the buds!
Make thy tune sharper if thou findeth taste of song lacks response,

Be hectic in the lawns, in the nest, in the groves of the garden-land,
Thou can’t change thy nature of  being mercurial,

Why should one look for image of  armour in his pious eye?
To whom is visible the very impressive person of the Ghazi,

 Lord! Make the heart of the Muslim crave for the past glory,
Lord! Make every Muslim conscious of his religious duty.

[‘sun’ means Mustafa Kemal,]
[‘hurricane of the west’ means world war- I,]