مردان خدا
وہی ہے بندئہ حر جس کی ضرب ہے کارینہ وہ کہ حرب ہے جس کی تمام عیاری
English translation
That man alone is brave and free, whose stroke is full of main and might that man is coward through and through who leans on guile and tricks in fight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “مردان خدا” (God's Men) 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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