اہل مصر سے
دفعتہً جس سے بدل جاتی ہے تقدیر اممہے وہ قوت کہ حریف اس کی نہیں عقل حکیم
English translation
Might at once can change a nation's fate, but wisdom is not its match and mate.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “اہل مصر سے” (To The Egyptians) 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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