امید
یہ کافری تو نہیں، کافری سے کم بھی نہیںکہ مرد حق ہو گرفتار حاضر و موجود
English translation
You do not call it unbelief, no less it is than disbelief' that truthful man may get content I with today, for change show no intent.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “امید” (Hope) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵