ایک فلسفہ زدہ سید زادے کے نام
تو سید ہاشمی کی اولادمیری کف خاک برہمن زاد
English translation
You hail from Hashemite Prophet's race, my origin from Brahmans I have to trace.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 15 in “ایک فلسفہ زدہ سید زادے کے نام” (Admonition To A Philosophy Stricken Sayyad) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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