زمانہ
مرے خم و پیچ کو نجومی کی آنکھ پہچانتی نہیں ہےہدف سے بیگانہ تیرا اس کا، نظر نہیں جس کی عارفانہ
English translation
No planet-gazer can ever see through my winding mazes; for when the eye that aims it sees by no lights from Heaven, the arrow wavers and glances by.
Translated by V.G. Kiernan
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 10 in “زمانہ” (Time) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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