وطنیت
خالی ہے صداقت سے سیاست تو اسی سےکمزور کا گھر ہوتا ہے غارت تو اسی سے
English translation
Politics have become bereft of sincerity is by this alone; the destruction of the home of the weak is by this alone.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 12 in “وطنیت” (Nationalism) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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