جمعیت اقوام مشرق
پانی بھی مسخر ہے، ہوا بھی ہے مسخرکیا ہو جو نگاہ فلک پیر بدل جائے
English translation
The West has made the wind and seas work through hard work, not chance; from West, the old blue' sky may turn its gaze and glance.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
مسخر: تسخیر کیا گیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “جمعیت اقوام مشرق” (League Of The Nations Of 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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