نصیحت
اک لرد فرنگی نے کہا اپنے پسر سےمنظر وہ طلب کر کہ تری آنکھ نہ ہو سیر
English translation
A Frankish Lord advised his son to seek such aim that is always pleasant ne'er bleak.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “نصیحت” (Advice) 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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