طلوع اسلام
مصاف زندگی میں سیرت فولاد پیدا کرشبستان محبت میں حریر و پرنیاں ہو جا
English translation
In the battle of life acquire the nature of steel. In the Love’s bed-chamber become soft like silk.
(This and the next verse is an allusion to the Holy Qur’an 48:29, which instructs Muslims to unite and be firm against infidels and kind and affectionate to believers.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 54 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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