ارتقا
کشا کش زم و گرما، تپ و تراش و خراشز خاک تیرہ دروں تا بہ شیشہ حلبی
English translation
Struggle exists between the heat and cold, throbbing and shaping from the dark dust to the polished glass of Halab!
(Halab or Aleppo was a famous place for the manufacture of quality glassware.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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