فنون لطیفہ
اے اہل نظر ذوق نظر خوب ہے لیکنجو شے کی حقیقت کو نہ دیکھے، وہ نظر کیا
English translation
Zest for sight, no doubt, is true O men endowed with art and tact, what aim or goal such sight can serve which fails to see the inmost part?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “فنون لطیفہ” (Fine Arts) 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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