خوشامد
میں کار جہاں سے نہیں آگاہ، ولیکنارباب نظر سے نہیں پوشیدہ کوئی راز
English translation
The world and its affairs to me are quite unknown; these secrets are not bid from those who insight own.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “خوشامد” (Flattery) in the section Politics of the East and the West, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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