زندگی
گفتم کہ خاکی است و بخاکش ہمی دہندگفتا چو دانہ خاک شکافد گل تر است
English translation
Said I, ‘Of earth it comes, to earth it goes.’ Said he, ‘The seed bursts earth, and is the rose.’
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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 poem۵ / ۵