سوال ششم

تو ہر مخلوق را مجبور گوئیاسیر بند نزد و دور گوئی

English translation

You call every creature to be determined, to be confined to the chains of ‘near’ and ‘far’.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

تو ہر مخلوق کو مجبور کہتا ہے کیونکہ وہ نزد و دور (زمان و مکان ) کی اسیر ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 35 in “⁨سوال ششم⁩” (Question 6) 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

۱۲ / ۳۵