قرب سلطان
مزا تو یہ ہے کہ یوں زیر آسماں رہیےہزار گونہ سخن در دہان و لب خاموش
English translation
The real joy comes by passing one’s life like this: ‘Thousand words in the mouth and have silent lips’.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 10 in “قرب سلطان” (Closeness To Kings) 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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