ارتقا
مقام بست و شکت و فشار و سوز و کشیدمیان قطرئہ نیسان و آتش عنبی
English translation
The phenomena of making and breaking, squeezing, heating and distilling exist between the drop of spring rain and the heat of the grape wine!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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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