بڈھے بلوچ کی نصیحت بیٹے کو
دنیا کو ہے پھر معرکۂ روح و بدن پیشتہذیب نے پھر اپنے درندوں کو ابھارا
English translation
The soul and body yet face a clash; this culture has made her wild beasts rash.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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