مصوری

حسن را از خود برون جستن خطاستآنچہ می بایست پیش ما کجاست

English translation

Seeking beauty from outside oneself is a mistake; what ought to be is not outside (oneself).

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

حسن کو اپنے سے باہر تلاش کرنا غلطی ہے ، جو کچھ ہونا چاہئیے وہ ہمارے سامنے کہاں؟

About this couplet

This is couplet 14 of 42 in “⁨مصوری⁩” (Painting) 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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