مشرق
مری خودی بھی سزا کی ہے مستحق لیکنزمانہ دارو رسن کی تلاش میں ہے ابھی
English translation
My Self deserves correction dire. To set it right and sound entire: The world harbours this evil hope; to hang me seeks a plank and rope.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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