پیش کش

آن یکی از سینۂ احرار گیروان دگر از سینۂ کہسار گیر

English translation

For knowledge cultivate your people’s minds; for wealth exploit your mineral finds.

Translated by M. Hadi Husain

Urdu translation

علم سینہء احرار سے حاصل کر اور دولت سینہء کوہسار سے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 57 of 82 in “⁨پیش کش⁩” (Epistle) in the section Dedication, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (⁨پیامِ مشرق⁩), published in 1923.

Read it in the poem

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