زمانہ

وہ فکر گستاخ جس نے عریاں کیا ہے فطرت کی طاقتوں کواس کی بیتاب بجلیوں سے خطر میں ہے اس کا آشیانہ

English translation

From Nature’s forces their reckless science has stripped the garments away, until at last its own nesting-place is scorched by the restless lightning it cannot still:

Translated by V.G. Kiernan

About this couplet

This is couplet 7 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

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