سلطانی جاوید
فطرت کو گوارا نہیں سلطانی جاویدہر چند کہ یہ شعبدہ بازی ہے دل آویز
English translation
Such kingship which e'er lasts, Nature can not desire, though this Talisman may please the heart of man entire.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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