انقلاب
نہ ایشیا میں نہ یورپ میں سوز و ساز حیاتخودی کی موت ہے یہ، اور وہ ضمیر کی موتدلوں میں ولولہ انقلاب ہے پیداقریب آگئی شاید جہان پیر کی موت!
English translation
The hearts of both the East and West of zeal and zest are quite bereft: One means the death of Self and soul, other decease of conscience whole.
A fervour great is in their hearts, they wait, when some convulsion starts; perhaps, this cosmos old and sear is in throes, its death quite near.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “انقلاب” (Revolution) 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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