عالم نو

بدن اس تازہ جہاں کا ہے اسی کی کف خاکروح اس تازہ جہاں کی ہے اسی کی تکبیر

English translation

The body of the dreamt or world is made from his handful clay: ‘God is Great’, his slogan shrill that can the role of soul for new world play.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 of 3 in “⁨عالم نو⁩” (New World) 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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