الوقت سیف
عبد از ایام می باند کفنروز و شب را می تند بر خویشتن
English translation
A slave weaves the shroud for himself by his times and covers himself with the sheet of days and nights!
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
عبد روز و شب سے کفن بنتا ہے اور اپنے اوپر اوڑھ لیتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 28 of 61 in “الوقت سیف” (Time Is A Sword), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
Read it in the poem۲۸ / ۶۱