خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام
مگر وہ علم کے موتی، کتابیں اپنے آبا کیجو دیکھیں ان کو یورپ میں تو دل ہوتا ہے سیپارا
English translation
But those pearls of wisdom, those books of our ancestors; by seeing them in Europe the heart is rent asunder.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 12 in “خطاب بہ جوانان اسلام” (Addressed To The Youth Of Islam) 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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