مسلمان کا زوال
اگر جواں ہوں مری قوم کے جسور و غیورقلندری مری کچھ کم سکندری سے نہیں
English translation
If youth of nation mine were jealous of their creed; my Qalandar's state won't mind Alexander's might indeed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
جسور و غيور: دلیر اور غیرتمند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “مسلمان کا زوال” (The Decline of the Muslim) 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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