وحی
فکر بے نور ترا، جذب عمل بے بنیادسخت مشکل ہے کہ روشن ہو شب تار حیات
English translation
Your zeal infirm and weak, unlit your thoughts by light it is too hard to illume your life's dark dismal night.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “وحی” (Revelation) 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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