مسولینی
میرے سودائے ملوکیت کو ٹھکراتے ہو تمتم نے کیا توڑے نہیں کمزور قوموں کے زجاج؟
English translation
My craze for Empire makes you sneer and frown, but walls of weak states, you too have brought down.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
زجاج: شیشے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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