تمہید
جو کوکنار کے خوگر تھے، ان غریبوں کوتری نوا نے دیا ذوق جذبہ ہائے بلند
English translation
Men wont to qaff extract from poppies drawn, have courage gained for deeds requiring brawn.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 9 in “تمہید” (The Prologue) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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