دام تہذیب
جلتا ہے مگر شام و فلسطیں پہ مرا دلتدبیر سے کھلتا نہیں یہ عقدہ دشوار
English translation
My heart, is grieved for Syria and Palestine, no known device can e'er unknit this skein.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
عقدہ دشوار: مشکل گتھی یا سوال۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “دام تہذیب” (Culture's Snare) 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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