پنچاب کے دہقان سے
زمانے میں جھوٹا ہے اس کا نگیںجو اپنی خودی کو پرکھتا نہیں
English translation
Base will his metal be held, who on earth puts not to trial his innermost worth!
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 7 in “پنچاب کے دہقان سے” (To The Punjab Peasant) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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