شعاع امید
نے ریت کے ذروں پہ چمکنے میں ہے راحتنے مثل صبا طوف گل و لالہ میں آرام
English translation
To shine on sand affords no pleasure sound, nor peace, like breeze in making flower's round.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 17 in “شعاع امید” (Ray Of Hope) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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