مدنیت اسلام
طلوع ہے صفت آفتاب اس کا غروبیگانہ اور مثال زمانہ گونا گوں!
English translation
Like sun, his rise and setting both are rare, he veers with Time and would e'er truth declare.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “مدنیت اسلام” (Islamic Civilization) 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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