شاعر
مشرق کے نیستاں میں ہے محتاج نفس نےشاعر ! ترے سینے میں نفس ہے کہ نہیں ہے
English translation
In lands of East, the bed of reeds for pipe, the breath of minstrel needs O poet, let me this much know, ‘if you have breath in breast, or no?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “شاعر” (The Poet) 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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