شاعر
گلشن دہر میں اگر جوئے مے سخن نہ ہوپھول نہ ہو، کلی نہ ہو، سبزہ نہ ہو، چمن نہ ہو
English translation
If the book of literature’s wine in the world’s garden does not exist; the flower, the bud, the verdure, even the garden will not exist.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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.
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