طلوع اسلام

تو راز کن فکاں ہے، اپنی انکھوں پر عیاں ہو جاخودی کا راز داں ہو جا، خدا کا ترجماں ہو جا

English translation

You are the secret of Kun Fikoon*, be manifest to yourself; become the knower of the secret of Khudi, become interpreter of God.
* This is an invitation to Muslims to realize the greatness of Man and specially that of Muslims, whose life is totally dedicated to God and who live for and die in His cause. This whole stanza is an invitation to the Muslim Ummah to acquire Islamic virtues.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 49 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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