مرد مسلمان
جس سے جگر لالہ میں ٹھنڈک ہو، وہ شبنمدریاوں کے دل جس سے دہل جائیں، وہ طوفان
English translation
While dealing with friends and mates, he is dew that thirst of tulip slakes: When engaged with his foes in fight, like torrent strong makes rivers shake.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 of 8 in “مرد مسلمان” (A Muslim) 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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