سلطانی
یہ جبر و قہر نہیں ہے، یہ عشق و مستی ہےکہ جبر و قہر سے ممکن نہیں جہاں بانی
English translation
This is not mere power and authority; this is Love; as kingship is not possible with power and authority alone.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 7 in “سلطانی” (Kingship) 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 poem۴ / ۷