مرزا غالب

ذرے ذرے میں ترے خوابیدہ ہیں شمں و قمریوں تو پوشیدہ ہیں تیری خاک میں لاکھوں گہر

English translation

The sun and the moon are asleep in every speck of your dust; though innumerable other gems are also hidden in your dust.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 14 of 15 in “⁨مرزا غالب⁩” (Mirza Ghalib) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

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