جمعیت اقوام
ممکن ہے کہ یہ داشتہ پیرک افرنگابلیس کے تعویذ سے کچھ روز سنبھل جائے
English translation
On Frank's dear mistress, may remain alive, by Satan's charm a few days more survive.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
داشتہ پيرک افرنگ: بوڑھے فرنگی کی داشتہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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