اشتراکیت

انساں کی ہوس نے جنھیں رکھا تھا چھپا کرکھلتے نظر آتے ہیں بتدریج وہ اسرار

English translation

These mysteries which the greed of man had kept in veils of stuff so coarse are step by step emerging now and coming forth by dint of force.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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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