زمانہ
ہر ایک سے آشنا ہوں، لیکن جدا جدا رسم و راہ میریکسی کا راکب، کسی کا مرکب، کسی کو عبرت کا تازیانہ
English translation
With each man friendly, with each I vary, and have a new part at my command: To one the rider, to one the courser, to one the whiplash of reprimand.
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 10 in “زمانہ” (Time) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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