قوت اور دین
تاریخ امم کا یہ پیام ازلی ہے'صاحب نظراں! نشہ قوت ہے خطرناک،
English translation
The annals right from historic dawn the message eternal bear as such: ‘O man, with insight great endowed, the wine of might is dangerous much.’
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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