طلوع اسلام
نظر کو خیرہ کرتی ہے چمک تہذیب حاضر کییہ صناعی مگر جھوٹے نگوں کی ریزہ کاری ہے
English translation
The glitter of modern civilization dazzles the eye, but this is the luster of unreal jewels only!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 58 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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