غزل
تیرا زمانہ، تاثیر تیریناداں ! نہیں یہ تاثیر افلاک
English translation
The age in which you live is influenced by you: To spheres that ever spin, it can, no way be due.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 7 in “غزل” (Ghazal) 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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