طلوع اسلام
غلامی میں نہ کام آتی ہیں شمشیریں نہ تدبیریںجو ہو ذوق یقیں پیدا تو کٹ جاتی ہیں زنجیریں
English translation
Neither swords nor plans are of any avail in slavery; chains are cast away when taste for Faith is created.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 33 of 72 in “طلوع اسلام” (The Renaissance 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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