فطرت کے مقاصد کی کرتا ہے نگہبانی
فطرت کے مقاصد کی کرتا ہے نگہبانییا بندہ صحرائی یا مرد کہستانی
English translation
One who resides in desert waste or person born on mountains steep can keep a watch on aims and ends that Nature in its view does keep.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “فطرت کے مقاصد کی کرتا ہے نگہبانی” (Fitrath ke maqasid ki karta hai nigahbani.) in the section Meditations of Mihrab Gul Afghan, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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