خطاب بہ اقوام سرحد
پای او محکم بہ رزم خیر و شرذکر او شمشیر و فکر او سپر
English translation
His foot is firm in the strife between good and bad; his remembrance of God is the scimitar and his contemplation the shield.
Translated by Jamil Naqvi
Urdu translation
خیر و شر کی جنگ میں وہ ثابت قدم رہتا ہے، ذکر اس کی شمشیر ہے اور فکر اس کا ڈھال۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 38 in “خطاب بہ اقوام سرحد” (Address to the Frontier Tribes) in the section The Traveller, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Pas Chih Bayad Kard (پس چہ بائد کرد اے اقوامِ شرق), published in 1936.
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