مصوری
یک زمان از خویشتن رنگی نزدبر زجاج ما گہی سنگی نزد
English translation
He could not manifest his own self (in his works); he did not strike the glass of heart with a stone (he cannot move or touch the hearts of those who see his pictures).
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
وہ کبھی نقش کو اپنا رنگ نہیں دیتا، کبھی ہمارے شیشے پر پتھر کی ضرب نہیں لگاتا ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 16 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 poem۱۶ / ۴۲