جلال و جمال
نہ ہو جلال تو حسن و جمال بے تاثیرنرا نفس ہے اگر نغمہ ہو نہ آتش ناک
English translation
Without great majestic height grace is not of much use: Song is mere puff of breath, if rapture can't produce.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “جلال و جمال” (Grandeur And Grace) 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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