زندگی
گفتم کہ شوق سیر نبردش بمنزلیگفتا کہ منزلش بہمین شوق مضمر است
English translation
‘It winds not to the goal, though it aspire.’ ‘The goal’, said he, ‘lies hid in that desire.’
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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 poem۴ / ۵