جہاد
تیغ و تفنگ دست مسلماں میں ہے کہاںہو بھی، تو دل ہیں موت کی لذت سے بے خبر
English translation
In hands of Muslims of the world, where can the gun and sword be seen? If equipped with such deadly arms, to suffer death they won't be keen.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
تفنگ: بندوق۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 8 in “جہاد” (Holy War) 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 poem۳ / ۸