طلوع اسلام

حقیقت ایک ہے ہر شے کی، خاکی ہو کہ نوری ہولہو خورشید کا ٹپکے اگر ذرے کا دل چیریں

English translation

The essence of everything is the same, be it of dust or light; Sun’s blood would drip by cutting the core of dust’s speck.*
(Allusion to the creation and existence of the spiritual universe, which also contained angels, made of light, and the material universe, which includes Man made of dust. This verse, read with the previous one means all creation of God is equal.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 38 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

۳۸ / ۷۲