حکومت
قوم کے ہاتھ سے جاتا ہے متاع کرداربحث میں آتا ہے جب فلسفہ ذات و صفات
English translation
That race is soon deprived of glorious deeds, for talk on Being and Attributes hatred breeds.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “حکومت” (Government) 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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