مردان خدا
زمانہ لے کے جسے آفتاب کرتا ہےانھی کی خاک میں پوشیدہ ہے وہ چنگاری
English translation
The spark lies hid within their clay which the world to itself takes transforms it as if by a smell and world – illuming sun it makes.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “مردان خدا” (God's Men) 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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