سوال سوم

بہ آن عقلی کہ داند بیش و کم راشناسد اندرون کان و یم را

English translation

With the aid of that intellect that deals with quantities probe the depths of mines and oceans;

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

وہ عقل جو بیش و کم جانتی ہے، اور جو کان اور سمندر کے اندرون کو پہچانتی ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 35 of 38 in “⁨سوال سوم⁩” (Question 3) 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

۳۵ / ۳۸