الارض للہ
پالتا ہے بیج کو مٹی کو تاریکی میں کونکون دریاوں کی موجوں سے اٹھاتا ہے سحاب؟
English translation
Who rears the seed in the darkness of the ground? Who lifts the cloud up from the ocean wave?
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
سحاب: بھاپ، بادل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 4 in “الارض للہ” (The Earth Is God's) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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