تخلیق
جہان تازہ کی افکار تازہ سے ہے نمودکہ سنگ و خشت سے ہوتے نہیں جہاں پیدا
English translation
New worlds derive their pomp from thoughts quite fresh and new from stones and bricks a world was neither built nor grew.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
سنگ و خشت: پتھر اور اینٹ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “تخلیق” (Creation) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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