در فن تعمیر مردان آزاد

بی محبت زندگی ماتم ھمہکاروبارش زشت و نامحکم ھمہ

English translation

Without True Love life is eternal wailing; its entire affairs are rendered corrupt and unstable.

Urdu translation

محبت کے بغیر زندگی سر تا پا ماتم ہے، اس کا سارا کاروبار قبیح و نا پختہ ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 21 of 28 in “⁨در فن تعمیر مردان آزاد⁩” (On The Architecture Of Free Men) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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