سوال پنجم
نشیمن را دل آدم نہاد استنصیب مشت خاکی او فتاد است
English translation
It sought refuge in the heart of man, and has fallen to the lot of this handful of dust.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
خودی نے آدم کے دل میں اپنا نشیمن بنایا، (سبحان الّہ!) اسے اپنا مشت خاک کے نصیب میں ہونا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 26 of 31 in “سوال پنجم” (Question 5) 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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