آزادی شمشیر کے اعلان پر
ہے فکر مجھے مصرع ثانی کی زیادہاللہ کرے تجھ کو عطا فقر کی تلوار
English translation
My anxiety for the second half is greater though, may God the sword of Faqr on you bestow.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “آزادی شمشیر کے اعلان پر” (On The Occasion Of Permission To Keep Sword) 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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