زندگی
گفتم کہ شر بفطرت خامش نھادہ اندگفتا کہ خیر او نشناسی ہمین شر است
English translation
‘Its nature steeped in evil’, I pursued. Said he, ’Tis just this evil makes it good.’
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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 poem۳ / ۵