جاوید سے
سرچشمہ زندگی ہوا خشکباقی ہے کہاں م ے شبانہ!
English translation
The fount and source of life is parched and dry, no more the wine of gnosis can supply:
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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 poem۴ / ۳۳