انسان
اس ذرے کو رہتی ہے وسعت کی ہوس ہر دمیہ ذرہ نہیں، شاید سمٹا ہوا صحرا ہے
English translation
This speck remains incessantly ambitious of expansion; not a speck but perhaps the constricted wilderness he is!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “انسان” (The Human Race) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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