فلسفہ ومذہب
یہ آفتاب کیا، یہ سپہر بریں ہے کیا!سمجھ نہیں تسلسل شام و سحر کو میں
English translation
Wherefore this succession of day and night? And what are the sun and the starry heavens?
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
سپہر بريں: بلند آسمان۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “فلسفہ ومذہب” (Philosophy And Religion) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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