شبلی و حالی
تیرے سرود رفتہ کے نغمے علوم نوتہذیب تیرے قافلہ ہائے کہن کی گرد
English translation
The tunes of your old songs are the basis of new knowledge; civilization is the dust of your old caravans.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 10 in “شبلی و حالی” (Shibli And Hali) 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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