نصیحت
تعلیم کے تیزاب میں ڈال اس کی خودی کوہو جائے ملائم تو جدھر چاہے، اسے پھیر
English translation
Pour the Self in culture's acid strong, when it becomes soft, mould it as you long.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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