ارتقا
اسی کشاکش پیہم سے زندہ ہیں اقوامیہی ہے راز تب و تاب ملت عربی
English translation
Nations live by this continuous struggle alone; this alone is the secret of the Arab nation’s struggle!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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