تقدیر
ہر لحظہ ہے قوموں کے عمل پر نظر اس کیبراں صفت تیغ دو پیکر نظر اس کی
English translation
Fate keeps its eye on what the nations do, like two-edged sword can riddle through and through.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
تیغ دو پیکر: دو دھاری تلوار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “تقدیر” (Destiny) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۴