لادین سیاست
متاع غیر پہ ہوتی ہے جب نظر اس کیتو ہیں ہراول لشکر کلیسیا کے سفیر
English translation
When their eyes on some weak domain alight, their Priests as vanguard act to wage the fight.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 4 in “لادین سیاست” (Secular Politics) 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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