جاوید سے
مومن پہ گراں ہیں یہ شب و روزدین و دولت، قمار بازی!
English translation
The days and nights a Muslim's toils enhance both creed and rule are like a game of chance.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 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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