اسرار پیدا
اس قوم کو شمشیر کی حاجت نہیں رہتیہو جس کے جوانوں کی خودی صورت فولاد
English translation
A nation whose youth are endowed with Self as strong and hard as steel: No need of piercing swords in war such people brave can ever feel.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
اسرار پیدا: کھلے ہوئے بھید۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “اسرار پیدا” (Open Secrets) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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