بیداری
جس بندئہ حق بیں کی خودی ہوگئی بیدارشمشیر کی مانند ہے برندہ و براق
English translation
A man with true belief, whose Self attentive grows like sturdy sword of steel, can cut and sheen it shows.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
برندہ و براق: کاٹ دار اور چمکدار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “بیداری” (Awakening) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱ / ۴