آفتاب صبح

تو اگر زحمت کش ہنگامہ عالم نہیںیہ فضیلت کا نشاں اے نیر اعظم نہیں

English translation

If you cannot endure the hardships of the tumultuous world
O the Great Luminary that is not the mark of greatness!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 16 of 21 in “⁨آفتاب صبح⁩” (Morning 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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