مسولینی
میں پھٹکتا ہوں تو چھلنی کو برا لگتا ہے کیوںہیں سبھی تہذیب کے اوزار ! تو چھلنی، میں چھاج
English translation
Why does pot feel offence, if kettle has a blot, our culture same – I kettle and you pot?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “مسولینی” (Mussolini) 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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