ارتقا
حیات شعلہ مزاج و غیور و شور انگیزسرشت اس کی ہے مشکل کشی، جفا طلبی
English translation
Life is flame-tempered, high-minded and fervent; its nature is resolving difficulty, bearing cruelty.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 7 in “ارتقا” (Evolution) 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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