آفتاب

قائم یہ عنصروں کا تماشا تجھی سے ہےہر شے میں زندگی کا تقاضا تجھی سے ہے

English translation

The spectacle of elements is maintained by you. The exigency of life in all is maintained by you.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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

۳ / ۱۰