شاعر
تاثیر غلامی سے خودی جس کی ہوئی نرماچھی نہیں اس قوم کے حق میں عجمی لے
English translation
If nation's Self grows too much weak by chains of bondage and much meek it need not hear the Persian strains, for these will only add to pains.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “شاعر” (The Poet) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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