طلوع اسلام
خودی میں ڈوب جا غافل! یہ سر زندگانی ہےنکل کر حلقہ شام و سحر سے جاوداں ہو جا
English translation
O imprudent one! Dive in Khudi, this is the secret of life; relinquishing the narrow confines of time become eternal.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 53 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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