No wonder if the garden birds remained fond of poetry even under the net; the lament fluttering in hearts as silent song remained.

Thy Effulgence could not satisfy the restless heart at all; the same dawn’s lament remained, the same midnight sighs remained.

Neither God, nor idols nor the rivals of temple and the Haram remained. Neither Ali’s prowess nor Abi Lahab’s infidelity remained. (This is a sad commentary on the disappearance of religion and the Love of God from the present day Man and the goals of his life.)

Though my orchestra remained oppressed by Ajam’s plectrum; I am that martyr in fidelity’s cause whose song ever Arabic remained! (Allama Iqbal was one of those reformers who tried to remove the effect of non-Islamic thoughts and ideologies (Greek, Zoroastrian, Chinese, Hindu) from Islamic thinking. This verse refers to this and says that in spite of the deep influence of non-Islamic ideologies on Islam he has continued to keep his thinking purely Islamic.)