خردہ
مزن وسمہ بر ریش و ابروی خویشجوانے ز دزدیدن سال نیست
English translation
Do not apply a hair-dye to your eyebrows and your beard, for you cannot get back your youth by stealing years from time.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
اپنی ریش اور آبرو پر وسمہ نہ لگا؛ سال چرا کر جوانی قائم نہیء رکھی جا سکتی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 of 18 in “خردہ” (Small-scale, detailed) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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