نصیحت
سینے میں رہے راز ملوکانہ تو بہترکرتے نہیں محکوم کو تیغوں سے کبھی زیر
English translation
Much good, if regal point remains in heart, in dominating men sword plays no part.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “نصیحت” (Advice) 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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