جاوید سے
حاصل اس کا شکوہ محمودفطرت میں اگر نہ ہو ایازی
English translation
If temper of Ayaz is free from every slavish trend, like Mahmud can win grandeur which hasn't end.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
شکوہ: شان و شوکت۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 29 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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