فرشتوں کاگیت
تہذیب نوی کارگہ شیشہ گراں ہےآداب جنوں شاعر مشرق کو سکھا دو!
English translation
All their fine new world a workshop filled with brittle glass: Go! My poet of the East to madness dedicate.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
تہذیب نوی: نئی تہذیب۔شيشہ گراں: شیشہ بنانے والے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 of 13 in “فرشتوں کاگیت” (Song of the Angels) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
Read it in the poem۱۳ / ۱۳