تمہید
زمانہ اپنے حوادث چھپا نہیں سکتاترا حجاب ہے قلب و نظر کی ناپاکی
English translation
Time can conceal mishaps at all from you, Alas! Your heart and soul are foul and are not true.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 9 in “تمہید” (The Prologue) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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