ایک خط کے جواب میں
ہوس بھی ہو تو نہیں مجھ میں ہمت تگ و تازحصول جاہ ہے وابستہ مذاق تلاش
English translation
Even if I have greed I do not have the strength for exertion acquiring position is connected with the taste for search.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 6 in “ایک خط کے جواب میں” (In Response To A Letter) 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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