در حقیقت شعر و اصلاح ادبیات اسلامیہ
از دمش بلبل نوا آموخت استغازہ اش رخسار گل افروخت است
English translation
From his lips the nightingale hath learned her song; and his rouge hath brightened the cheek of the rose.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
شاعر کے نغمے سے بلبل نے نوا سیکھی ہے؛ اس کے غازے نے پھول کو چمکا دیا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 70 in “در حقیقت شعر و اصلاح ادبیات اسلامیہ” (The True Nature Of Poetry And Reform Of Islamic Literature), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
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