شرق و غرب
زخمہا خوردند از شمشیر خویشبسمل افتادند چون نخچیر خویش
English translation
They have been sore smitten by their own swords, hunted down and slaughtered, themselves the hunters.
Urdu translation
وہ اپنی تلوار ہی سے زخم کھا کر اپنا ہی شکار ہو کر بسمل پڑے ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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