سوال اول
منہ پا در بیابان طلب سستنخستین گیر آن عالم کہ در تست
English translation
Do not set foot in the desert of search lazily; first, take hold of that world which lies within you.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
بیابان طلب میں سست رفتاری سے نہ چل ، پہلے اس عالم کو قابو کر جو تیرے اندر ہے (عالم نفس)۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 25 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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