سوال پنجم
خیال اندر کف خاکی چسان استکہ سیرش بی مکان و بی زمان است
English translation
What kind of aspiration this handful of dust has that its flight is beyond the limitations of time and space.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
کف خاک کے اندر 'تفکر' اس طرح ہے کہ ، اس کی سیر زمان و مکاں سے ماورا ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 28 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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