مرد بزرگ
پرورش پاتا ہے تقلید کی تاریکی میںہے مگر اس کی طبیعت کا تقاضا تخلیق
English translation
Nurtured in mimicry's gloom to tread like sheep his doom but he is much inclined to creative bent of mind.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “مرد بزرگ” (The Great Man) 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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