بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو
حاصل کسی کامل سے یہ پوشیدہ ہنر کرکہتے ہیں کہ شیشے کو بنا سکتے ہیں خارا
English translation
Get this hid skill from a paragon* lone, it is said that glass can be turned to stone.
* A model of excellence.)
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
خارا: سخت پتھر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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