خضرراہ
تو اسے پیمانہ امروز و فردا سے نہ ناپجاوداں پیہم دواں، ہر دم جواں ہے زندگی
English translation
Do not measure it on the scale of today and tomorrow! Eternal, incessantly struggling, ever young is life!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
امروز و فردا: آج اور کل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) 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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