پیرو مرید
گرچہ بے رونق ہے بازار وجودکون سے سودے میں ہے مردوں کا سود؟
English translation
Though life is a mart without any luster: What kind of bargain doth offer some gain?
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 27 of 52 in “پیرو مرید” (The Mentor And The Disciple) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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