قوت اور دین
اسکندر و چنگیز کے ہاتھوں سے جہاں میںسو بار ہوئی حضرت انساں کی قبا چاک
English translation
Autocrats like Alexander and Changez, have trampled men beneath their feet; not once but hundred times so far, they brought man down from honoured seat.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “قوت اور دین” (Authority And Faith) 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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