سوال ششم
خرد جز را فغان کل را بگیردخرد میرد فغان ہرگز نمیرد
English translation
Intellect grasps the part, lamentation the whole. Intellect dies but lamentation is immortal.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
خرد 'جزو' کو اور عشق 'کل' کو گرفت میں لاتا ہے، خرد کو فنا ہے ، عشق کو ہرگز فنا نہیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 24 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 poem۲۴ / ۳۵