تمہید
عطا ہوا خس و خاشاک ایشیا مجھ کوکہ میرے شعلے میں ہے سرکشی و بے باکی
English translation
The straws and thorns of East to me have been assigned, for flame that burns in me is rash and unconfined.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 9 in “تمہید” (The Prologue) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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