مدنیت اسلام
حقائق ابدی پر اساس ہے اس کییہ زندگی ہے، نہیں ہے طلسم افلاطوں!
English translation
On lasting truths its foundations firmly rest, no Plato's conceit but life replete with zest.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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