سوال ہشتم
شرر را تیز بالی میتوان دادتپید لایزالی میتوان داد
English translation
It is possible to give wings to a mere spark, and to make it flutter for ever and for ever!
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
شرر کو پرواز تیز اور ہمیشہ کی چمک بھی عطا ہو سکتی ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 of 28 in “سوال ہشتم” (Question 8) 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 poem۲۳ / ۲۸