بجہان دردمندان تو بگو چہ کار داری
چہ بگویمت ز جانی کہ نفس نفس شمارددم مستعار داری غم روزگار داری
English translation
Or the soul, that numbereth life departing at each breath, borrowed spirit, grief of time – shall I speak thee in rhyme?
Translated by A.J. Arberry
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “بجہان دردمندان تو بگو چہ کار داری” (ba jahan-e dardmandan to bego che kar dari) in the section Part 1, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (زبورِعجم), published in 1927.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۳