غزل
نہ جدا رہے نوا گر تب و تاب زندگی سےکہ ہلاکی امم ہے یہ طریق نے نوازی
English translation
A poet must ne'er keep aloof from noisy fretful stream of life; the bard, who shuns the facts and truths, can't make the nation face its strife.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نوا گر: گانے والا۔ہلاکي امم: قوموں کی حلاکت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “غزل” (Ghazal) 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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