سوال ہشتم
ترا این چشم بیداری بخواب استترا گفتار و کرداری بخواب است
English translation
Your wakeful eye is in reality in a state of dream, your speech and action are all in a dream!
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
تیری یہ چشم بیدار بھی خواب ہے، تیری گفتار و کردار بھی خواب ہے۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 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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