نبوت
وہ نبوت ہے مسلماں کے لیے برگ حشیشجس نبوت میں نہیں قوت و شوکت کا پیام
English translation
The seer, inspired by God, who fails to prompt to deeds of might and main, is just akin to leaf of hemp that makes oblivious to loss or gain.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
برگ حشیش: بھنگ کی پتّی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “نبوت” (Prophethood) 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 / ۴