دنیا
حق بات کو لیکن میں چھپا کر نہیں رکھتاتو ہے، تجھے جو کچھ نظر آتا ہے، نہیں ہے!
English translation
Of facts so true, I strive to hide not aught, you are, all else a trick that eyes have wrought.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “دنیا” (The World) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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