اشتراکیت
اندیشہ ہوا شوخی افکار پہ مجبورفرسودہ طریقوں سے زمانہ ہوا بیزار
English translation
The world is red tip with the modes that aren't in vogue and are outworn; my intellect, that was tame and mild much pert and insolent has grown.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “اشتراکیت” (Communism) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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