شرق و غرب
شعلۂ افرنگیان نم خوردہ ایستچشم شان صاحب نظر دل مردہ ایست
English translation
The flame of the Europeans is damped down, their eyes are perceptive, but their hearts are dead;
Urdu translation
افرنگیوں کا شعلہ بجھنے والا ہے؛ ان کی آنکھ صاحب نظر ہے مگر دل مردہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 28 in “شرق و غرب” (“Sa’Id Halim Pasha”: East And West) in the section The Sphere of Mecury, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), published in 1932.
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