بزم انجم
آئین نو سے ڈرنا، طرز کہن پہ اڑنامنزل یہی کھٹن ہے قوموں کی زندگی میں
English translation
To be afraid of the new ways, to insist on the old ones; this is the only difficult stage in the life of nations.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 15 in “بزم انجم” (The Assembly Of Stars) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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