طلبہء علی گڑھ کالج کے نام
موت ہے عیش جاوداں، ذوق طلب اگر نہ ہوگردش آدمی ہے اور، گردش جام اور ہے
English translation
Eternal luxury is death if there is no Longing for Search: Man’s revolving is different; wine-cup’s revolving is different.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “طلبہء علی گڑھ کالج کے نام” (Address To The Students Of Aligarh College) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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