اہرام مصر
فطرت کی غلامی سے کر آزاد ہنر کوصیاد ہیں مردان ہنر مند کہ نخچیر
English translation
Set your craftsmanship quite free from Nature's chains that bind it tight for men endowed with gift of craft aren't prey, of hunters need no fright.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نخچير: شکار۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “اہرام مصر” (The Pyramids Of Egypt) 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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