جاوید سے
خالی ان سے ہوا دبستاںتھی جن کی نگاہ تازیانہ
English translation
The Shrines are empty of such saintly folk, whose glance good manners taught with single stroke.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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