عشق اور موت

مگر ایک ہستی ہے دنیا میں ایسیوہ آتش ہے میں سامنے اس کے پارا

English translation

But there is one entity in the Universe; it is fire, I am only mercury before it.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 18 of 23 in “⁨عشق اور موت⁩” (Love And Death) 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

۱۸ / ۲۳