آزادی شمشیر کے اعلان پر
قبضے میں یہ تلوار بھی آجائے تو مومنیا خالد جانباز ہے یا حیدر کرار
English translation
If Muslim true can get this sword in hold; he is Ali the Lion of God, or Khalid bold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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