مرگ خودی
خودی کی موت سے روح عرب ہے بے تب و تاببدن عراق و عجم کا ہے بے عروق و عظام
English translation
The Arabs have lost their former zeal, their souls are shrunk, they can not feel: Iraq and Persia are bereft of bones and veins and naught is left.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
عروق: عرق کی جمع ، یعنی رنگین۔عظام: عزم کی جمع، یعنی ہڈیاں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “مرگ خودی” (Death Of The Ego) 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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