مسلم
یاد عہد رفتہ میری خاک کو اکسیر ہےمیرا ماضی میرے استقبال کی تفسیر ہے
English translation
Memory of the past age is the elixir for my life; my past is the interpretation of my future.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 17 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.
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