عشق اور موت
زمیں کو تھا دعوی کہ میں آسماں ہوںمکاں کہہ رہا تھا کہ میں لا مکاں ہوں
English translation
The earth was claiming elegance of the sky. The space was claiming to be boundless.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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 poem۸ / ۲۳