بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو
دیں ہاتھ سے دے کر اگر آزاد ہو ملتہے ایسی تجارت میں مسلماں کا خسارا
English translation
If his freedom hangs on the faith’s bargain, in such a bargain he stands not to gain.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 11 in “بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو” (An Advice Of Old Baluch To His Son) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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