گل نخستین
بخامہ ئی کہ خط زندگی رقم زدہ استنوشتہ اند پیامی بہ برگ رنگینم
English translation
The pen that Destiny employed in writing Being’s scroll
Inscribed a message on my leaves for everyone to read.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 5 in “گل نخستین” (The First Rose) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۵