زمانہ
ہوائیں ان کی، فضائیں ان کی، سمندر ان کے، جہاز ان کےگرہ بھنور کی کھلے تو کیونکر، بھنور ہے تقدیر کا بہانہ
English translation
To them the trade-wind belongs, the sky-way, to them the ocean, to them the ship: It shall not serve them to calm the whirlpool by which their fate holds them in its grip!
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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