جاوید سے
نایاب نہیں متاع گفتارصد انوری و ہزار جامی!
English translation
There is no dearth of goods, called verse or, rhyme; there are hundreds of poets much sublime.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 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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