اساتذہ
دنیا ہے روایات کے پھندوں میں گرفتارکیا مدرسہ، کیا مدرسے والوں کی تگ و دو!
English translation
The world is trapped by traditions old and hoar, preceptors helpless quite, can do no more.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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