قلندر کی پہچان
کہتا ہے زمانے سے یہ درویش جواں مردجاتا ہے جدھر بندئہ حق، تو بھی ادھر جا!
English translation
A Darwesh bold proclaims with main and might my guidance take, tread path quite straight and right.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “قلندر کی پہچان” (The Recognition Of A Qalandar) 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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