پیش کش
علم اشیا "علم الاسماستی"ہم عصا و ھم ید بیضا ستی
English translation
Knowledge of things is Adam’s gift from God, the shining palm of Moses and his rod.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
Urdu translation
علم اشیاء ہی علم اسماء کی تفسیر ہے؛ یہی عصا ہے اور یہی ید بیضا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 53 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.
Read it in the poem۵۳ / ۸۲