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.

Read it in the poem

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