سلطانی جاوید
غواص تو فطرت نے بنایا ہے مجھے بھیلیکن مجھے اعماق سیاست سے ہے پرہیز
English translation
Though Nature has made me such that I too can dive, yet from statesmanship's core to keep aloof I strive.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
اعماق: گہرائیاں ۔غواص: غور و خوض۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “سلطانی جاوید” (Eternal Kingship) 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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