سوال اول
حیات از وی بر اندازد کمندیشود صیاد ہر پست و بلندی
English translation
Life makes it into a lasso and throws it to catch everything low and high.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
حیات فکر کی کمند پھینک کر، ہر پست و بالا کا شکار کرتی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 21 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 poem۲۱ / ۳۵