مہدی
ہو زندہ کفن پوش تو میت اسے سمجھیںیا چاک کریں مردک ناداں کے کفن کو؟
English translation
If man alive puts on the shroud, must we take that ass for dead or tear to pieces small and shreds his shroud and cast away the threads?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “مہدی” (The Guide) 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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