تخلیق

خودی کی موت سے مشرق کی سر زمینوں میںہوا نہ کوئی خدائی کا رازداں پیدا

English translation

The death of Self has made the lands of East effete, men who God's secrets share in these realms are deplete.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 4 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.

Read it in the poem

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