شکست
فقیہ شہر بھی رہبانیت پہ ہے مجبورکہ معرکے ہیں شریعت کے جنگ دست بدست
English translation
The jurist has such bent of mind that makes to monkish mode inclined, in Holy Wars take rock-like stand, they are just combats hand to hand.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “شکست” (Defeatism) 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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