سوال اول

درون سینۂ آدم چہ نور استچہ نور است این کہ غیب او حضور است

English translation

What a light there is within the heart of man! A light that is manifest in spite of its invisibility.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

سینہء آدم کے اندر یہ کیا نور ہے، کہ اس کا غیب بھی حضور ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 35 in “⁨سوال اول⁩” (Question 1) in the section New Garden of Mysteries, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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