مقصود
نگاہ موت پہ رکھتا ہے مرد دانش مندحیات ہے شب تاریک میں شرر کی نمودحیات و موت نہیں التفات کے لائقفقط خودی ہے خودی کی نگاہ کا مقصود
English translation
Plato: A wise man knows that 'fore death he must bow, in pitch dark night, life, ike spark, soon loses glow.
Both life and death deserve not any heed the Self of man is Ego's goal and need.
(Written at Riaz Manzil, residence of Sir Rass Masood, Bhopal.)
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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.
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