None
تمیز خار و گل سے آشکارانسیم صبح کی روشن ضمیریحفاظت پھول کی ممکن نہیں ہےاگر کانٹے میں ہو خوئے حریری
English translation
From knowledge of thorns and buds which shoot, the conscience of breeze at dawn is cute.
It is possible not to guard the blooms, if the thorns have got a silken broom.
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Word meanings
حريري: ریشمی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “None” (Tameez khaar o gul se aashkaara) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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