آفتاب

باعث ہے تو وجود و عدم کی نمود کاہے سبز تیرے دم سے چمن ہست و بود کا

English translation

The splendor of existence has been created by you. The verdure of the garden of existence depends on you.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

ہست و بود: مراد ہے زندگی کا چمن۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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

۲ / ۱۰