انتداب
کہاں فرشتہ تہذیب کی ضرورت ہےنہیں زمانہ حاضر کو اس میں دشواری
English translation
It is not hard to find in present age the place which needs culture's angelic sage.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “انتداب” (Tutelage) 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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