Teri hai abhi
“Ceaseless striving is the true scale for the measure and quality of a life; you, so far, still weigh life by the count of mornings and evenings.”
तेरी मीज़ाँ है अभी
The couplet in Devanagari — it carries the authenticity of the original, and every Hindi reader can read it.
تیری میزاں ہے شمار سحر و شام ابھی
The couplet as Iqbal wrote it, in Urdu (Nastaliq).
Iqbal contrasts two ways of measuring a life. One simply counts the days that pass, mornings and evenings ticking by. The other weighs life by sustained effort, the unbroken striving that gives existence both quantity and quality. To Iqbal, a life is worth what it strives for, not how long it merely lasts.
Stop measuring your life by how many days have gone by. Measure it by the effort you keep pouring in. A life is judged by its striving, not its length.
Abhi ishq ke imtihan aur bhi hain
Sitaron pe jo dalte hain kamand
Zindagi shama ki surat ho khudaya meri