شبلی و حالی
پتھر ہے اس کے واسطے موج نسیم بھینازک بہت ہے آئنہ آبروئے مرد
English translation
Even the zephyr’s current is like stone to it; very delicate is the mirror of Man’s honour.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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