جاوید سے
شاخ گل پر چہک ولیکنکر اپنی خودی میں آشیانہ!
English translation
On rose twigs chirp, for Ion. there do not rest, in Selfhood you must seek your home and nest
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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