مدرسہ
دل لرزتا ہے حریفانہ کشاکش سے ترازندگی موت ہے، کھو دیتی ہے جب ذوق خراش
English translation
When faced by rivals strong and brave: your heart beats fast and shakes with fear: Such life is naught but Death, in fact, when blows of life you can not.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
ذوق خراش: تکلیف برداشت کرنے کی لذت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “مدرسہ” (The School) 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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