اذان
واقف ہو اگر لذت بیداری شب سےاونچی ہے ثریا سے بھی یہ خاک پر اسرار
English translation
This handful of dust, when keeping awake at night, is loftier than the galaxies in heaven;
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 7 in “اذان” (Call to Prayer) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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