طلوع اسلام

جہاں میں اہل ایماں صورت خورشید جیتے ہیںادھر ڈوبے، ادھر نکلے ادھر ڈوبے، ادھر نکلے

English translation

The men of Faith live in the world like the sun; set here, come out there, set there, come out here!
(Allusion to the Holy Qur’an 2:154 and 3:169, according to which people who lose their physical life in the cause of God should not be considered as dead. Also, the light of Truth which illuminates the heart of a man of Faith cannot be extinguished. Faith keeps on fighting and struggling in the pursuit of their goal incessantly all over the world in cooperation with each other. This makes the infidels lose the war at the end.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 47 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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