تعلیم
تب و تابی کہ باشد جاودانہسمند زندگے را تازیانہبہ فرزندان بیاموز این تب و تابکتاب و مکتب افسون و فسانہ
English translation
A shine which lasts with beauty and grace; to life’s mustang a whip for race.
Teach the kids and colts,* a verve and flame; to books and schools a fiction I name.
* Kids and colts: New generation.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 14 in “تعلیم” (Education), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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