جاوید سے
تیری دنیا کا یہ سرافیلرکھتا نہیں ذوق نے نوازی
English translation
Your world's Sarafil has neither taste no zeal, he can't blow trumpet nor can skill reveal.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 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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