سوال اول
گہی نازش ز برہان و دلیل استگہی نورش ز جان جبرئیل است
English translation
Sometimes its fire is nourished by argumentation and reasoning, sometimes its light is derived from the breath of Gabriel;
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
کبھی برہان و دلیل اس کی نار بن جاتی ہے اور کبھی وہ وحی جبریل سے نور حاصل کرتا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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 poem۴ / ۳۵