تربیت
اہل دانش عام ہیں، کم یاب ہیں اہل نظرکیا تعجب ہے کہ خالی رہ گیا تیرا ایاغ!
English translation
No dearth of lettered men, ah few! Provide the bowl with wine of gnosis like True Guide.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
ایاغ: پیالہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “تربیت” (Upbringing) 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 poem۳ / ۴