سیاست افرنگ
تری حریف ہے یارب سیاست افرنگمگر ہیں اس کے پجاری فقط امیر و رئیسبنایا ایک ہی ابلیس آگ سے تو نےبنائے خاک سے اس نے دو صد ہزار ابلیس
English translation
God, the politics of the Franks, with your creative powers ranks the rich alone and aristocrats obey its calls and dictates.
One Devil out of fire You raised, for Franks a track You have emblazed; the West has by its guile and art, filled with Satans the human mart.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “سیاست افرنگ” (Statesmanship Of The Franks) 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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