روح ارضی آدم کا استقبال کرتی ہے
نالندہ ترے عود کا ہر تار ازل سےتو جنس محبت کا خریدار ازل سےتو پیر صنم خانہء اسرار ازل سےمحنت کش و خوں ریز و کم آزار ازل سےہے راکب تقدیر جہاں تیری رضا، دیکھ!
English translation
Thy lyre has an eternal plaintive string, panting with the passion of love; thou guardest eternal secrets divine and livest a life of obedient power; look at the world as shaped by thy will.
(Based on a translation by S A Vahid, edited by Hafeez Malik)
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 5 in “روح ارضی آدم کا استقبال کرتی ہے” (Adam Is Received By The Spirit Of The Earth) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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