خردہ
می خورد ھر ذرہ ما پیچ و تابمحشری در ھر دم ما مضمر استبا سکندر خضر در ظلمات گفتمرگ مشکل، زندگی مشکل تر است
English translation
Agony in every atom of our being, every breath of us a rising from the dead.
To Sikandar lost amidst the Land of Darkness, ‘Hard is Death, but Life is harder’, Khizar said.
Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 18 in “خردہ” (Small-scale, detailed) in the section A Picture of Europe, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Payam-e-Mashriq (پیامِ مشرق), published in 1923.
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