خرد کرپاس را زرینہ سازد
خرد کرپاس را زرینہ سازدکمالش سنگ را آئینہ سازدنوای شاعر جادو نگاریز نیش زندگی نوشینہ سازد
English translation
Cotton to cloth of gold the mind can bring. Stones turn to mirrors, by its polishing:
The poet, with his magical melody, to honeyed potion doth convert Life’s sting.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “خرد کرپاس را زرینہ سازد” in the section The Tulip of Sinai, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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