سوال چہارم
چہ سودا در سر این مشت خاکستازین سودا درونش تابناکست
English translation
What fancy has this handful of dust? It is due to this fancy that his inner self is illumined.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
مشت خاک کے سر میں یہ کیا سودا سمایا ہے؟ اسی سودا سے تو اس کا اندرون روشن ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 19 of 31 in “سوال چہارم” (Question 4) 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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