حکایت الماس و زغال
خوار گشتی از وجود خام خویشسوختی از نرمی اندام خویش
English translation
Because thy being is immature, thou hast become abased; because thy body is soft, thou art burnt.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
Urdu translation
تو اپنے خام وجود کے باعث ذلیل و خوار ہوا ہے؛ اور اپنے بدن کی نرمی کے سبب جلتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 of 20 in “حکایت الماس و زغال” (Story Of The Diamond And The Coal), from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Asrar-e-Khudi (اسرارِ خودی), published in 1915.
Read it in the poem۱۵ / ۲۰