پیش کش
او ز شوخی در تہ قلزم تپیدتا گریبان صدف را بر درید
English translation
He burst out of the mother-of-pearl’s womb, for he could rest no longer in that tomb.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
وہ شوخی سے سمندر کی تہ میں تڑپا ، یہاں تک کہ اس نے صدف کا گریبان پھاڑ دیا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 of 82 in “پیش کش” (Epistle) in the section Dedication, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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