شاعر
شیشے کی صراحی ہو کہ مٹی کا سبو ہوشمشیر کی مانند ہو تیزی میں تری مے
English translation
If flask of glass shines like the day; or is a pitcher made from clay: Like sharpness of a sword of steel to palate must its relish feel.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵