جہاد
حق سے اگر غرض ہے تو زیبا ہے کیا یہ باتاسلام کا محاسبہ، یورپ سے درگزر
English translation
A man concerned with truth alone can never this much proper deem that East for sins must reckoning face, but crimes by West may lighter seem.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
محاسبہ: پوچھ گچھ، احتساب۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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.
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