جاوید سے
دہقان اگر نہ ہو تن آساںہر دانہ ہے صد ہزار دانہ
English translation
If peasant is not charmed with life of ease, a seed can yield a thousand-fold increase.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 33 in “جاوید سے” (To Javaid) 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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