Satire
On The Turkish Mismanagement
( Iqbal’s Zarifana )
They were
ignorant this much that they never recognised Arabs’ worth,
The
outcome was this that they could not avoid fight,
In the
west camel is known as the ship of desert,
The Turks
did not make any use of this fleet.
(
Suggestions invited to betterment )
*In
this poem Iqbal has mourned the carelessness of the Turks. In the reign of
Sultan Abdul Hameed II ( 1877 – 1909 )
infrastucture of government had become ruined. An ordinary example is this that
when in 1912 the Turks were engaged in a battle in Adrianople where soldiers
were starving due exhaustion of edible stuff and at a distance of 10 –12 miles
away edible stuff was rotting.
There was no infrastuucture for
supplies of edible stuff and medical aid for the besieged soldiers in the fort
of Adrianople. This is why in 1912 Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari headed an Indian medical
deligation with doctors and medicines to Constintinople, Turkey.
Iqbal discloses that if the Turks
would have formed the Camel Corps, this would have been of great help to
maintain the supplies.
