• Hum se pehlay tha ajab terey jahan ka manzar
  
• Kahin masjood they puthar, kaheen mahbood shajar
  
• Khogar-e-paikar-e-mahsoos thi insaan ki nazar
  
• Manta phir koi un dekhey Khodaa ko kyoon kar?
  
• Tuj ko maaloom hai laita tha koi naam tera?
  
• Kuwat-e-bazooi muslim ne kya kaam tera!
  

English Translation

• Strange indeed the spectacle Thy world supplied before our days,
  
• Here men bowed them down to stones, there paid reverence to trees;
  
• Only to the visual image was attuned the human gaze -
  
• How could hearts adore a God no eye percipient may seize?
  
• Well Thou knowest, was there any anywhere to name Thy name?
  
• By the Muslim's strong right arm Thy purpose to fulfillment came.