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.

Read it in the poem

۱ / ۱۰