من و تو از دل و دین نا امیدیم
دوگیتی را صلا از قرأت اوستمسلمان لایموت از رکعت اوستند اندکشتۂ این عصربی سوزقیامتہا کہ درقد قامت اوست
English translation
He calls both worlds to Quran by prays, by such one prayer, Muslim dies nay.
Never knew thus the swains of this Age, in his prayer hid a doomsday’s rage.
(The literal translation of line 3 and 4 would be: This flameless age’s victim-knows not, nay, the dooms days are hidden in his calls for Pray. Iqbal has expressed this thought in another verse: Save God a Muslim to none would how, to Pharoahs his head is never low.)
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
Urdu translation
نماز عشق کی قرآت دونوں جہانوں کے لیے صلا (دعوت) ہے، اس کی ایک رکعت ، مسلمان کو زندہء جاوید بنا دیتی ہے۔اس دور بے سوز کا مارا ہوا انسان کیا جانے، کہ اس نماز کی اقامت میں کیا قیامت (پوشیدہ ) ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 10 of 10 in “من و تو از دل و دین نا امیدیم”, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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