تسلیم و رضا
ظلمت کدئہ خاک پہ شاکر نہیں رہتاہر لحظہ ہے دانے کو جنوں نشوونما کا
English translation
The seed is not content with dwelling dark; it has a craze to spire from earth like spark.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “تسلیم و رضا” (Resignation) 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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