غزل

تیری متاع حیات، علم و ہنر کا سرورمیری متاع حیات ایک دل ناصبور!

English translation

A restless aching heart that throbs with Love; is my life's only stock and hoard your joys of life consist of wealth and gold that worldly Science and Arts to you afford.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

دل ناصبور: بیقرار دل۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 6 in “⁨غزل⁩” (Ghazal) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (⁨ضربِ کلیم⁩), published in 1936.

Read it in the poem

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