پیوستہ رہ شجر سے، امید بہار رکھ
شاخ بریدہ سے سبق اندوز ہو کہ توناآشنا ہے قاعدئہ روزگار سے
English translation
You should learn a lesson from the separated branch as you are unacquainted with the customs of the world.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “پیوستہ رہ شجر سے، امید بہار رکھ” (Remain Attached To The Tree Keep Pring’s Expectation) 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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