جہان ما کہ جز انگارہ ئی نیست
جہان ما کہ جز انگارہ ئی نیستاسیر انقلاب صبح و شام استز سوہان قضا ہموار گرددہنوز این پیکر گل ناتمام است
English translation
Our world, a piece of work not yet finished, is hostage to the alteration of day and night;
The file of fate will rub it smooth: This clay sculpture is still being made.
Translated by Mustansir Mir
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 1 in “جہان ما کہ جز انگارہ ئی نیست” in the section The Tulip of Sinai, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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