"Imamat" (Leadership)
Allama Iqbal

You have asked me the secret of leadership;
May God make you like me a possessor of secrets.

He alone is the true leader of your time,
Who makes you discontent with the present state of affairs;

Who shows you the face of a friend in the mirror of death,
And makes life even more burdensome for you;

Who heats your blood with the feeling of his words,
And makes you a sword steeled with asceticism.

But he who makes Muslims worship their overlords,
Is nothing but trouble for the glorious 'millet'.