جمہوریت
اس راز کو اک مرد فرنگی نے کیا فاشہر چند کہ دانا اسے کھولا نہیں کرتےجمہوریت اک طرز حکومت ہے کہ جس میںبندوں کو گنا کرتے ہیں، تولا نہیں کرتے
English translation
By some European sage this secret was revealed, though men endowed with sense, keep points like this concealed.
Democracy means a mode to rule the common man no doubt, they count the votes, but conduct do not scan.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “جمہوریت” (Democracy) 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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