مومن
ہو حلقہ یاراں تو بریشم کی طرح نرمرزم حق و باطل ہو تو فولاد ہے مومن
English translation
In the world: A man whose faith is firm and strong is soft as silk in friendly throng in skirmish between wrong and right like sword of steel, he stands to fight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “مومن” (Believer) 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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