اساتذہ
مقصد ہو اگر تربیت لعل بدخشاںبے سود ہے بھٹکے ہوئے خورشید کا پر تو
English translation
If you desire to breed such ruby which is red, don't beg light of sun that from course has fled.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “اساتذہ” (Teachers) 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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