فنون لطیفہ

بے معجزہ دنیا میں ابھرتی نہیں قومیںجو ضرب کلیمی نہیں رکھتا وہ ہنر کیا

English translation

Without the aid of wondrous acts no nation ever can advance: An art that has no Hoses' Rod a people's status can't enhance.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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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