آفتاب

نے ابتدا کوئی نہ کوئی انتہا تریآزاد قید اول و آخر ضیا تری

English translation

There is no beginning and no end of yours; free of limits of time is the light* of yours
* This does not mean that the sun is eternal in the theological sense, but that it will last in the present form till the existence of the material universe in its present form.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 10 of 10 in “⁨آفتاب⁩” (The Sun) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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