مسلمان اور تعلیم جدید
بدلی زمانے کی ہوا، ایسا تغیر آگیاتھے جو گراں قمیت کبھی، اب ہیں متاع کس مخر
English translation
The world’s ways have changed, such changes have come that those who were invaluable once are not even saleable now.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
متاع کس مخر: ایسا مال جسے کوئی نہ خریدے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 8 in “مسلمان اور تعلیم جدید” (Muslims and Modern Education) 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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