غلاموں کے لیے
حکمت مشرق و مغرب نے سکھایا ہے مجھےایک نکتہ کہ غلاموں کے لیے ہے اکسیر
English translation
Both wisdoms of the East and West have given to me of their best: Both of them to me have taught a point with Elixir's virtues fraught.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “غلاموں کے لیے” (For Slaves) 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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