آفتاب

ہر شے کو تیری جلوہ گری سے ثبات ہےتیرا یہ سوز و ساز سراپا حیات ہے

English translation

Your appearance confers stability on everything; your illumination and concord is completion of life.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

ثبات: قائم؛ پائیداری۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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

۴ / ۱۰