جہان عمل
اے کہ تو پاس غلط کردۂ خود میدارےآنچہ پیش تو سکون است خرام است اینجا
English translation
O you who try to be consistent with your past mistakes, whatever you regard as rest is here mobility.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “جہان عمل” (The World Of Action) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۵ / ۶