ستارگانِ فضاہائے نیلگوں کی طرح
تخیّلات بھی ہیں تابعِ طلوع و غروب
Sitaragan-e-fazaha-e-nilgun ki tarah
Takhayyulat bhi hain tabi-e-tulu o ghurub
جہاں خودی کا بھی ہے صاحبِ فراز و نشیب
یہاں بھی معرکہ آرا ہے خُوب سے ناخُوب
Jahan khudi ka bhi hai sahib-e-faraz o nasheb
Yahan bhi ma'arka-ara hai khub se na-khub
نمود جس کی فرازِ خودی سے ہو، وہ جمیل
جو ہو نشیب میں پیدا، قبیح و نامحبوب!
Numud jis ki faraz-e-khudi se ho, woh jamil
Jo ho nasheb mein paida, qabih o na-mahbub!
Source: Zarb-e-Kalim (1936) — section Taleem-o-Tarbiyat, nazm
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Three couplets on beauty and ugliness. Like the stars of the blue sky, thoughts too rise and set; the world of the self has its heights and depths, and there too good battles bad. Whatever appears from the heights of the self is beautiful; whatever is born in its depths is ugly and unloved.
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