حقیقت ازلی ہے رقابت اقوام
نگاہ پیر فلک میں نہ میں عزیز، نہ تو
Haqiqat-e-azali hai raqabat-e-aqvam
Nigah-e-pir-e-falak mein na main aziz, na tu
خودی میں ڈوب، زمانے سے نا امید نہ ہو
کہ اس کا زخم ہے درپردہ اہتمام رفو
Khudi mein doob, zamane se na-umid na ho
Ki us ka zakhm hai dar-parda ehtimam-e-rafu
رہے گا تو ہی جہاں میں یگانہ و یکتا
اتر گیا جو ترے دل میں "لا شریک لہ"
Rahega tu hi jahan mein yagana-o-yakta
Utar gaya jo tire dil mein "la sharika lahu"
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936), section "Mohrab Gul Afghan ke Afkar"
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Rivalry between nations is an eternal fact and the old sky favours no one. The poem tells the reader to sink into selfhood and not despair of the age, whose wound hides its own mending, and says that whoever takes "He has no partner" to heart stays unique in the world.
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