مرد بزرگ
مثل خورشید سحر فکر کی تابانی میںبات میں سادہ و آزادہ، معانی میں دقیق
English translation
Faqr can like sun of morn with light the mead adorn its speech is frank and free, though meanings tenuous be.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
دقيق: باریک، نازک۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵