مشرق
نہ مصطفی نہ رضا شاہ میں نمود اس کیکہ روح شرق بدن کی تلاش میں ہے ابھی
English translation
In Raza Shah or Mustafa Kamal, no trace of it is found at all. East's soul is seeking body sound, but such a body has not found.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “مشرق” (The East) 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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