بیداری
اس کی نگہ شوخ پہ ہوتی ہے نمودارہر ذرے میں پوشیدہ ہے جو قوت اشراق
English translation
The urge to shine and grow, within the mote concealed; 'fore his eyes sharp and keen is with much haste revealed.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
قوت اشراق: روشن ہونا ، طلوع ہونا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “بیداری” (Awakening) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۲ / ۴