مستی کردار
وہ مرد مجاہد نظر آتا نہیں مجھ کوہو جس کے رگ و پے میں فقط مستی کردار
English translation
Alas! My eyes do not behold the Holy Knight whose fervour high may cause his blood to seethe and boil in veins that lend such might to thigh.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “مستی کردار” (Fervour For Action) 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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