سلطانی جاوید
فرہاد کی خارا شکنی زندہ ہے اب تکباقی نہیں دنیا میں ملوکیت پرویز
English translation
Cleaving rocks by Farhad in hearts is still distinct, but Empire of Pervez from mind is quite extinct.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خارا شکني: پتھر توڑنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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