عشرت امروز

وہ حسن کیا جو محتاج چشم بینا ہونمود کے لیے منت پذیر فردا ہو

English translation

What worth is the beauty which is in need of the discerning eye; which is obligated for the tomorrow for its manifestation?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 7 in “⁨عشرت امروز⁩” (The Delight of Today) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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