گل نخستین
دلم بدوش و نگاہم بہ عبرت امروزشہید جلوۂ فردا و تازہ آئینم
English translation
My heart is with the past; my eye is on the present’s roll.
A prophet of the future, I proclaim the future’s creed.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “گل نخستین” (The First Rose) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵