Jangan tuan meninggi harap
Dia yang politik jadi azimat
Ghairah bermain debu dan asap
Pada semuanya kemas terlekat.
Arah matanya tegar terjurus
Pada semut kelkatu terbang
Tali pengikat genting dan bolos
Takkan terjaring awan dan bintang.
Beruntunglah kafilah serta kumpulan
Bila pemukanya setia menggendong
Fikiran kudus tinggi mengawan
Dengan semangat kental menggunung.
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of political leaders
You can not much expect
From those who politics guide
Their wont to play with dust
Too lowly dust are tied.
Their gaze is ever fixed
On humble ants and flies
Their noose as frail as web
Cant cast it on the skies.
How lucky the caravan
Whose chief possesses the stock
Of holy angelic thoughts
And passions as firm as rock.
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The Rod of the Moses: A Declaration of War Against the Present Age; a versified English translation of Allama Iqbal's Zarb-i-Kalim by Syed Akbar Ali Shah.
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Pencuri Kota Baghdad
for we are thiefs
kings of the cunning
lords of the mischief
in caravansary we sing
in caravansary we sing
in meetings only brief
in circling the ring
in brotherhood of relief
Pencuri Kota Baghdad
Rubaiyat Quatraint 26
Aha .., come with old Umar
Leave the Wise
For one thing is certain
That time flies
One thing is certain
The rest are lies
The flower once bloom
Forever dies.
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