امامت
موت کے آئنے میں تجھ کو دکھا کر رخ دوستزندگی تیرے لیے اور بھی دشوار کرے
English translation
By showing the face of Friend in looking glass, may make your life more onerous and crass.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “امامت” (Guidance) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵