ایک فلسفہ زدہ سید زادے کے نام
آدم کو ثبات کی طلب ہےدستور حیات کی طلب ہے
English translation
To have a life steadfast is his desire, he seeks some rules to guide his life entire.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 15 in “ایک فلسفہ زدہ سید زادے کے نام” (Admonition To A Philosophy Stricken Sayyad) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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