بیداری

تجھ میں ابھی پیدا نہیں ساحل کی طلب بھیوہ پاکی فطرت سے ہوا محرم اعماق

English translation

So far you have not formed for coast a love or taste: He knows the depths full well, by dint of nature chaste.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

Word meanings

اعماق: گہرائیاں، عمیق کی جمع۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 of 4 in “⁨بیداری⁩” (Awakening) 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 poem

۴ / ۴