خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام
حکومت کا تو کیا رونا کہ وہ اک عارضی شے تھینہیں دنیا کے آئین مسلم سے کوئی چارا
English translation
Why should we cry for suzerainty, as it was temporary’ there is no escape from the world’s established principles.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 12 in “خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام” (Addressed To The Youth Of Islam) 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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