شاعر

شاعر دل نواز بھی بات اگر کہے کھریہوتی ہے اس کے فیض سے مزرع زندگی ہری

English translation

If the affectionate poet also exhibits the truth; life’s cultivation greens up from his bountiful ways.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 of 8 in “⁨شاعر⁩” (The Poet) 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

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