اہل مریخ
جانشان پروردۂ اندام نیستلاجرم خو کردۂ اندام نیست
English translation
Their soul is not nourished by the body; therefore it has not become habituated to the body.
Urdu translation
ان کی جان بدن کی پروردہ نہیں ہے اس لیے وہ بدن کی اتنی عادی نہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 of 26 in “اہل مریخ” (The Sphere Of Mars: THE MARTIANS) in the section The Sphere of Mars, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Javid Nama (جاوید نامہ), published in 1932.
Read it in the poem۲۳ / ۲۶