امامت
دے کے احساس زیاں تیرا لہو گرما دےفقر کی سان چڑھا کر تجھے تلوار کرے
English translation
He may make your blood seethe with sense of harm and on Faqr’s whetstone may to sword transform.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
سان: ہتھیار تیز کرنے کا آلہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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 poem۴ / ۵