سوال ہشتم

مقام تحت وفوق و چار سو خوابسکون و سیر و شوق و جستجو خواب

English translation

Down and above, all four dimensions are illusions, rest and motion, desire and search are all illusions!

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

نیچے اوپر اور چارسو (اطراف و جہات) خواب ہیں، سکون و حرکت اور جذبہ ء شوق و جستجو سب خواب ہیں۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 5 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 poem

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