جاوید سے

ہمت ہو اگر تو ڈھونڈ وہ فقرجس فقر کی اصل ہے حجازی

English translation

If you have courage great and ample force: Seek such Faqr which in Hejaz has its source.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 25 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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