سلطان ٹیپو کی وصیت
تو رہ نورد شوق ہے، منزل نہ کر قبوللیلی بھی ہم نشیں ہو تو محمل نہ کر قبول
English translation
If you traverse the road of love, don't yearn to seek repose or rest; if Laila be your companion close that litter shun with great contempt.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “سلطان ٹیپو کی وصیت” (The Testament Of Tipu Sultan) 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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