چیستان شمشیر
مضمون او بہ مصرع برجستہ ئی تماممنت پذیر مصرع دیگر نمی شود
English translation
Its theme needs no longer statement than a single line, if trenchant.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “چیستان شمشیر” (The Riddle Of The Sword) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۳