طلوع اسلام
مسلماں کو مسلماں کر دیا طوفان مغرب نےتلاطم ہائے دریا ہی سے ہے گوہر کی سیرابی
English translation
The storm of the West has made the Muslim into a real Muslim; only the upheavals of the sea bring the pearl’s beauty to its perfection.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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