ہر شے مسافر، ہر چیز راہی

تو مرد میداں، تو میر لشکرنوری حضوری تیرے سپاہی

English translation

Thou art in command of all in the chain of Being; Angels and species on earth are legions of thy armies.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 5 in “⁨ہر شے مسافر، ہر چیز راہی⁩” (Har shay musaafir, har cheez raahi) in the section Odes Part-II, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

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