امرائے عرب سے
کرے یہ کافر ہندی بھی جرات گفتاراگر نہ ہو امرائے عرب کی بے ادبی
English translation
If Amirs of Arabian lands don't take it for a slur or slight; this Muslim from the land of Ind may speak with vigour great and might.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “امرائے عرب سے” (To the Arab Nobles) 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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