طلوع اسلام
عمل سے زندگی بنتی ہے جنت بھی، جہنم بھییہ خاکی اپنی فطرت میں نہ نوری ہے نہ ناری ہے
English translation
Dynamism establishes life; bestows heaven as well as hell; this earthly creature in its nature is neither angelic nor infernal.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 61 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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