سیاسی پیشوا
امید کیا ہے سیاست کے پیشواوں سےیہ خاک باز ہیں، رکھتے ہیں خاک سے پیوند
English translation
You can not much expect from those who politics guide; their wont to play with dust to lowly dust is tied.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خاک باز: مٹی سے کھیلنے والے ، پست خیالات والے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “سیاسی پیشوا” (Political Leaders) 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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