این ہم جہانی آن ھم جہانی

اینجا چہ کارم آنجا چہ کارمآہی فغانی آہی فغانی

English translation

What is my labour, here and there? The lamentation of despair!

Translated by A.J. Arberry

About this couplet

This is couplet 6 of 8 in “⁨این ہم جہانی آن ھم جہانی⁩” (in ham jahani an ham jahani) in the section Part 2, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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