شعر عجم
وہ ضرب اگر کوہ شکن بھی ہو تو کیا ہےجس سے متزلزل نہ ہوئی دولت پرویز
English translation
A mighty stroke with case can cleave a mountain high and big in twain: If fails to shake the founds of Chosroe's throne, is useless quite and fully vain.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “شعر عجم” (Persian Poetry) 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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