انتداب
نظروران فرنگی کا ہے یہی فتویوہ سرزمیں مدنیت سے ہے ابھی عاری
English translation
The wise 'mong Franks this verdict declare of culture Arab lands are fully bare.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نظروران: دانشمند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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