عصر حاضر
پختہ افکار کہاں ڈھونڈنے جائے کوئیاس زمانے کی ہوا رکھتی ہے ہر چیز کو خام
English translation
Where from a man can find ripe thoughts in present age? The weather of this park no ripeness can presage.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “عصر حاضر” (Modern Age) 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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