موٹر

میں نے کہا، نہیں ہے یہ موٹر پہ منحصرہے جادہء حیات میں ہر تیزپا خموش

English translation

I replied: ‘This is not restricted to car; in the path of life every fleet footed is quiet.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 6 in “⁨موٹر⁩” (The Motor Car) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۳ / ۶