الوقت سیف
فطرتش زحمت کش تکرار نیستجادہ ی او حلقہ ی پرگار نیست
English translation
His nature is not obliged to any sort of repetition, because his path is not like the circle caused by compasses!
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
اس کی فطرت تکرار کی خوگر نہیں؛ اس کا راستہ پرکار کا دائرہ نہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 35 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 poem۳۵ / ۶۱