دام تہذیب
ترکان 'جفا پیشہ' کے پنجے سے نکل کربیچارے ہیں تہذیب کے پھندے میں گرفتار
English translation
Of cruel Turkish hold they have got rid; in culture's snare they too soon have slid!
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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