پھول
تمنا آبرو کی ہو اگر گلزار ہستی میںتو کانٹوں میں الجھ کر زندگی کرنے کی خو کرلے
English translation
If you long for respect in the rose garden of existence; you should get accustomed to living entangled in thorns!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 8 in “پھول” (Flower) 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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