اعجاز ہے کسی کا یا گردش زمانہ!

تعمیر آشیاں سے میں نے یہ راز پایااہل نوا کے حق میں بجلی ہے آشیانہ

English translation

By the building of my nest, this secret hid was brought to view that for the bards that sing and chant the choice of nest is bolt from blue.

Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 7 in “⁨اعجاز ہے کسی کا یا گردش زمانہ!⁩” (Aijaaz hai kisi ka ya gardish-e-zamana!) 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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