ذوق و شوق
لوح بھی تو، قلم بھی تو، تیرا وجود الکتابگنبد آبگینہ رنگ تیرے محیط میں حباب
English translation
Thou writest my book of fate; Thou art my arbiter; the starlit dome, in its expanse, is but a bubble in Thy Sea.
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 of 31 in “ذوق و شوق” (Ecstasy) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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