طلوع اسلام
تمیز بندہ و آقا فساد آدمیت ہےحذر اے چیرہ دستاں! سخت ہیں فطرت کی تغریریں
English translation
The ruled and ruler’s discrimination is the bane of humanity. Beware; O oppressors the punishments of God for this are severe!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 37 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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