سوال اول

فرورفتن چو پیکان در ضمیرشندادن گندم خود با شعیرش

English translation

To go down into its heart like the point of an arrow, not to exchange your wheat for its barley;

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

اس کے ضمیر میں تیر کی طرح اترا جائے ، اور اپنی گندم کو (قیمتی متاع) اس کے جو کے عوض نہ دیا جائے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 34 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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