سوال ہفتم
ز باغش کشت ویرانی نکوترز شہر او بیابانے نکوتر
English translation
A desolate field is better than its garden, a desert is better than its city.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
اس کے باغ سے ویران کھیتی ، اور اس کے شہروں سے بیابان بہتر ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 of 32 in “سوال ہفتم” (Question 7) in the section New Garden of Mysteries, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
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