مصور
معلوم ہیں اے مرد ہنر تیرے کمالاتصنعت تجھے آتی ہے پرانی بھی، نئی بھی
English translation
O artist, of your talents I can tell, you know the ancient crafts and new so well.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “مصور” (The Painter) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۴