None
نہ کر ذکر فراق و آشنائیکہ اصل زندگی ہے خود نمائینہ دریا کا زیاں ہے، نے گہر کادل دریا سے گوہر کی جدائی
English translation
Talk not of friendship and partings, so the real life lies in the Ego’s show.
No loss, their lies, of river and pearls, if the pearl parts with the river’s whirl.
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “None” (Na kar zikr faraq o aashnaai) in the section Quatrains, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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