طلوع اسلام

تری فطرت امیں ہے ممکنات زندگانی کیجہاں کے جوہر مضمر کا گویا امتحاں تو ہے

English translation

Your nature is the custodian of all life’s possibilities; so to say you are the touch-stone for world’s hidden jewels!

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 21 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.

Read it in the poem

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