جمعیت اقوام
بیچاری کئی روز سے دم توڑ رہی ہےڈر ہے خبر بد نہ مرے منہ سے نکل جائے
English translation
The League appears to be in death's tight grips; I fear this grim news may escape my lips.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “جمعیت اقوام” (League Of Nations) 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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