جاوید سے
اپنے نور نظر سے کیا خوبفرماتے ہیں حضرت نظامی
English translation
Nizami, the poet great of Persian tongue, gave counsel wise to son who still was young:
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نور نظر: مراد ہے فرزند۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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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