انتداب
جسور و زیرک و پردم ہے بچہ بدوینہیں ہے فیض مکاتب کا چشمہ جاری
English translation
Although deprived of School's beneficial fount on Bedouin’s wit and courage we can count.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
جسور: بہادر۔بچہ بدوي: عرب کے بدو کا بیٹا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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