طلوع اسلام
ہزاروں سال نرگس اپنی بے نوری پہ روتی ہےبڑی مشکل سے ہوتا ہے چمن میں دیدہ ور پیدا
English translation
For thousands of years narcissus bemoans its lack of luster: the discerning person is produced in the garden with difficulty.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 14 of 72 in “طلوع اسلام” (The Renaissance Of Islam) 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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