ایجاد معانی
بے محنت پیہم کوئی جوہر نہیں کھلتاروشن شرر تیشہ سے ہے خانہ فرہاد!
English translation
Without resort to incessant strife, no skill or art completion gains: If Farhad does not hew the rocks, no sparks flash, dark his house remains!
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “ایجاد معانی” (Invention Of New Meanings) 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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