سوال اول
درون شیشۂ او روزگار استولی بر ما بتدریج آشکار است
English translation
There is a world hidden in its glass, but it reveals itself to us piecemeal.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
فکر کے شیشہ کے اندر ساری کائنات ہے، لیکن ہم پر اس کے راز بتدریج آشکار ہوتے ہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 20 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.
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