حکیم نطشہ
اگرچہ پاک ہے طینت میں راہبی اس کیترس رہی ہے مگر لذت گنہ کے لیے
English translation
Although his natural bent of mind from stains and blemish is quite free his soul this dormant fact betrays, he yearns for life replete with spree.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “حکیم نطشہ” (Neitzche) 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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