Siege of Adrianople
(Iqbal’s Muhasara-e-Edirne)
When in Europe war
between the Just and the Unjust broke out,
The Just became forced to take up
arms and fight,
The Christian Belkan states surrounded the Muslim Turkey state,
Shukri became sieged in the fort of
Edirne,*
The stocks of eatables of the Muslim soldiers exhausted,
They lost all hopes of
reinforcement,
At last by the order of the
Turkish commander,
Mashal law was enforced in the
town,
Everything became army property,
Tukish army became needy of
the Christian help,
But, when the Muslim Jurist heard this news,
Becoming enraged he turned like thunderbolt
of Sinai,
“Use of the ruled masses’
property is forbidden for Muslims”,
This judicial verdict
became public in whole town,
The army did not touch
the belongings of the Jews and the Christians,
Muslims became forced by the order
of the Shariah and court and surrendered.
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* Shukri Pasha was the commander of the Turkish army. He resisted
for
five months, then surrendered
in February 1913. The Turks regained the
town in July 1913 under the command of Ghazi Anwar Pasha.
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