سوال چہارم
خودی را تنگ در آغوش کردنفنا را با بقا ہم دوش کردن
English translation
To press the ego tightly to the bosom is to turn death into everlasting life.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
خودی کو پوری طرح اپنا لینا ، گویا فنا کو اور بقا کو اکٹھا کر دینا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 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.
Read it in the poem۲۴ / ۳۱