زمانہ
محرمانہ قریب تر ہے نمود جس کی، اسی کا مشتاق ہے زمانہجو تھا نہیں ہے، جو ہے نہ ہو گا، یہی ہے اک حرف
English translation
What was; has faded: what is; is fading: but of these words few can tell the worth; time still is gaping with expectation of what is nearest its hour of birth.
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 10 in “زمانہ” (Time) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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