غزل
دریا میں موتی، اے موج بے باکساحل کی سوغات ! خاروخس و خاک
English translation
O fearless wave, at bed of river gems are found. What are the gifts of coast? There dust and thorns abound.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خاروخس و خاک: کانٹے، گھاس اور مٹی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “غزل” (Ghazal) 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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