پیش کش
زانکہ ملت را حیات از عشق اوستبرگ و ساز کائنات از عشق اوست
English translation
Because, the life of the Islamic people draws its sustenance from it and it, in fact, is that which keeps the universe intact.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
ملت اسلامیہ کی زندگی کا دار و مدار حضور اکرم (صلعم) کی محبت پر ہے، یہی عشق کائنات کا ساز و سامان ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 79 of 82 in “پیش کش” (Epistle) in the section Dedication, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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