مقصود
نظر حیات پہ رکھتا ہے مرد دانش مندحیات کیا ہے، حضور و سرور و نور و وجود
English translation
Spinoza: On life is fixed tile gaze of persons bright, what is life? Presence; being, joy and light.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 2 in “مقصود” (Goal) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۱ / ۲