جہاد
تعلیم اس کو چاہیے ترک جہاد کیدنیا کو جس کے پنجہ خونیں سے ہو خطر
English translation
A man, whose bloody claws for world with risk and danger much are fraught; must avoid the Holy Wars, to give up wars he must be taught.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
پنجہ خونيں: خون سے بھرا ہوا ہاتھ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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 poem۵ / ۸