خوب و زشت
نمود جس کی فراز خودی سے ہو، وہ جمیلجو ہو نشیب میں پیدا، قبیح و نامحبوب!
English translation
If Self has reached the height, its acts are fine, debased, its deeds as good one can't define.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
قبیح: برا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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