موسیقی
نوا کو کرتا ہے موج نفس سے زہر آلودوہ نے نواز کہ جس کا ضمیر پاک نہیں
English translation
That player on the flute who has a conscience much defiled, impure with puff of breath can make a tune replete with poison which hasn't cure.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “موسیقی” (Music) 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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