بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو
تقدیر امم کیا ہے، کوئی کہہ نہیں سکتامومن کی فراست ہو تو کافی ہے اشارا
English translation
On the fate of nations none can’t foretell, on the Momin’s shrewd look you can always dwell.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 11 in “بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو” (An Advice Of Old Baluch To His Son) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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