مسلم

قسمت عالم کا مسلم کوکب تابندہ ہےجس کی تابانی سے افسون سحر شرمندہ ہے

English translation

The Muslim is the shining star of the universe’s destiny; the spell of the morning by whose brilliance is shy.
(These two verses show the supremacy of Man in the creation of God. According to Allamah Iqbal’s concept of Khudi Man reaches perfection and the zenith of his spiritual progress by complete submission to God, which is what Islam is.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 18 in “⁨مسلم⁩” (The Muslim) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۱۲ / ۱۸