لاوالا
وہ ملت روح جس کی 'لا 'سے آگے بڑھ نہیں سکتییقیں جانو، ہوا لبریز اس ملت کا پیمانہ
English translation
Though odd and strange the matter sounds, but who can't cross Negations's bounds must rest assured, his death is near, naught can save him from blight and sear.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “لاوالا” (No and Yes) 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 / ۳