ایک پرندہ اور جگنو
قیام بزم ہستی ہے انھی سےظہور اوج و پستی ہے انھی سے
English translation
The assembly of existence is based on these alone. All the world's manifestations are through these alone.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 11 of 12 in “ایک پرندہ اور جگنو” (A Bird And The Fire Fly) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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