کرمک شبتاب
واماندہ شعاعی کہ گرہ خورد و شرر شداز سوز حیاتست کہ کارش ہمہ زر شددارای نظر شد
English translation
A dormant sunbeam re-awoke and shot up with a dash. The alchemy of life converted it to gold from trash came vision to it in a flash.
Translated by M. Hadi Husain
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 9 in “کرمک شبتاب” (The Glow-Worm) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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