شکست
گریز کشمکش زندگی سے، مردوں کیاگر شکست نہیں ہے تو اور کیا ہے شکست
English translation
Man's flight from conflicts of life, or escape from its heat and strife if these not be abject defeat, what else is then a mean retreat?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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