سوال ششم

شراب افرشتہ از تاکش بگیردعیار خویش از خاکش بگیرد

English translation

The angel gets wine from its vine; it gets significance from its earth.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

فرشتہ اس کے تاکستان سے شراب حاصل کرتا ہے، اور اس کی خاک کو اپنے لیے معیار ٹھہراتا ہے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 20 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

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