خوب و زشت
ستارگان فضاہائے نیلگوں کی طرحتخیلات بھی ہیں تابع طلوع و غروب
English translation
Just like the stars that shine in azure sky, thoughts have short span of life and soon they dir.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “خوب و زشت” (Good and Evil) 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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