سوال ہشتم
خدا خفت و وجود ما ز خوابشوجود ما نمود ما ز خوابش
English translation
God went to sleep and our being is through His dream; our existence and appearance are merely His dreams.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
خدا سو گیا (استغفر الّہ) ہمارا وجود بھی اس کا خواب اور ہماری نمود بھی اس کا خواب ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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.
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