کہا اقبالؔ نے شیخ حرم سے
تہ محراب مسجد سو گیا کون
Kaha Iqbal ne shaikh-e-haram se
Tah-e-mehrab-e-masjid so gaya kaun
ندا مسجد کی دیواروں سے آئی
فرنگی بت کدے میں کھو گیا کون
Nida masjid ki divaron se aai
Farangi but-kade mein kho gaya kaun
Source: Armaghan-e-Hijaz (1938), Urdu section
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A quatrain: Iqbal asks the elder of the sanctuary who has fallen asleep beneath the mosque's arch, and a voice from the mosque's walls answers with a question of its own: who has got lost in the Western idol-house?
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