زندگی
پرسیدم از بلند نگاہی حیات چیستگفتا مئی کہ تلخ تر او نکوتر است
English translation
I asked a lofty sage what Life might be. ‘The wine whose bitterest cup is best’, said he.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 5 in “زندگی” (Life) in the section Reflections, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
Read it in the poem۱ / ۵