حکومت
قسمت بادہ مگر حق ہے اسی ملت کاانگبیں جس کے جوانوں کو ہے تلخاب حیات
English translation
That nation has the right to luck in life whose youth for honey take worldly blows and strife.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
تلخاب: کڑوا۔انگبیں: شہد۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۴