جاوید سے
ناپید ہے بندہ عمل مستباقی ہے فقط نفس درازی
English translation
Men drunk with zeal for deeds nowhere are found, the rest are fond of talk with idle sound.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 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.
Read it in the poem۲۴ / ۳۳