جاوید کے نام

ٹھہر سکا نہ کسی خانقاہ میں اقبالکہ ہے ظریف و خوش اندیشہ و شگفتہ دماغ

English translation

Iqbal was not at ease in a monastery, for he is bright, and sprightly, and full of wit.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 5 in “⁨جاوید کے نام⁩” (To Javaid) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

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