اہل مصر سے
ہر زمانے میں دگر گوں ہے طبیعت اس کیکبھی شمشیر محمد ہے، کبھی چوب کلیم
English translation
Change its wont e'ery age, though odd, now Mohammad's sword, then Moses' Rod.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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