سیاسی پیشوا
خوشا وہ قافلہ، جس کے امیر کی ہے متاعتخیل ملکوتی و جذبہ ہائے بلند
English translation
How lucky the Caravan, whose Chief possesses the stock of lofty angelic thoughts, and passions firm as rock.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
متاع: دولت۔خوشا: خوش نصیب۔تخيل ملکوتي: فرشتوں کی سی سوچ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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