خضرراہ
قلزم ہستی سے تو ابھرا ہے مانند حباباس زیاں خانے میں تیرا امتحاں ہے زندگی
English translation
You have emerged from the existence’ ocean like a bubble; in this losing battle your examination is life.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
حباب: بلبلہ۔قلزم: سمندر۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 30 of 85 in “خضرراہ” (The Traveler’s Guide) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۳۰ / ۸۵