زندگی
گفتم کہ کرمک است و ز کل سر برون زندگفتا کہ شعلہ زاد مثال سمندر است
English translation
Said I, ‘A vile worm rearing head from mire.’ Said he, ‘A salamander born of fire.’
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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 poem۲ / ۵