طلوع اسلام
جہاں بانی سے ہے دشوار تر کار جہاں بینیجگر خوں ہو تو چشم دل میں ہوتی ہے نظر پیدا
English translation
Insight into the world is more difficult than the world’s sovereignty! Insight is produced only when the heart melts into blood!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 13 of 72 in “طلوع اسلام” (The Renaissance Of Islam) 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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