دل بیدار فاروقی، دل بیدار کراری
دل بیدار فاروقی، دل بیدار کراریمس آدم کے حق میں کیمیا ہے دل کی بیداری
English translation
A heart awake to man imparts Umar’s brains and Hyder’s manly parts: If watchful heart a man may hold, his dross is changed to sterling gold.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “دل بیدار فاروقی، دل بیدار کراری” (Dil-e-bedaar Farooqi, dil-e-bedaar Karari) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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