خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام

O Muslim youth! Have you ever used your prudence; what was that sky of which you are a fallen star?

That nation has nurtured you its lap of love, whose feet had trampled the crown of Dara’s head.

Civilization’s formulator, creator of rules of world government was that desert of Arabia; that is the cradle of camel drivers.

‘Al Faqru fakhri’s’ state* even in glory of authority existed. ‘Why would the beautiful face need beautifying and cosmetics?’**

اس لیے کہ خوبصورت چہرہ رنگ ، نسل اور سامان و آرائش کا محتاج نہیں ہوتا۔

Even in poverty those men of God were so high-minded that the rich could not avoid charity for beggar’s fear.

In short what should I tell you what those wanderers in wilderness were? They were world conquerors, world rulers, world administrators, and world adorners.

If I wish to present their picture in words I can, but that scene is beyond the comprehension of your imagination.

You cannot have any relationship with your ancestors; you are talk, they were action, you are stars, they were planets.

We have wasted the heritage obtained from our ancestors. The sky has thrown us down from the Thurayyah * to the earth.

Why should we cry for suzerainty, as it was temporary’ there is no escape from the world’s established principles.

But those pearls of wisdom, those books of our ancestors; by seeing them in Europe the heart is rent asunder.

‘O Ghani*! Witness the dark day of the saint of Kina‘an,** because the light of his eyes brightens Zulaikhah’s eyes.

غنی پیر کنعان ، یعنی حضرت یعقوب (علیہ) کے نصیب کا تماشا دیکھ؛ کہ ان کی آنکھوں کا نور (حضرت یوسف علیہ) زلیخا کی آنکھوں کو روشن کر رہا ہے۔