جاوید سے

سینے میں اگر نہ ہو دل گرمرہ جاتی ہے زندگی میں خامی

English translation

If heart with love of God is not replete, the life of man remains quite incomplete.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 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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