سوامی رام تیرتھ
چشم نابینا سے مخفی معنی انجام ہےتھم گئی جس دم تڑپ، سیماب سیم خام ہے
English translation
The meaning of the end is hidden from the unsightful eye: Mercury is only raw silver, when its restlessness stops.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “سوامی رام تیرتھ” (Swamy Ram Tirath) in the section Poems of Period 1905-08, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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