جدت

دیکھے تو زمانے کو اگر اپنی نظر سےافلاک منور ہوں ترے نور سحر سے

English translation

If you behold the world with gaze much bright; of you the sky may beg morning light.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 4 in “⁨جدت⁩” (Newness) 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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