موسیقی

از نم او شعلہ پروردن توانخامشی را جزو او کردن توان

English translation

Moisture (of his eyes; the tears) adds to the flames of fire; so that silence be made part of it.

Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar

Urdu translation

جس کے نم سے شعلے کی پرورش کی جا سکے اور خاموشی کو بھی اس کا جزو بنایا جا سکے۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 20 of 28 in “⁨موسیقی⁩” (Music) in the section On The Fine Arts Of Slaves, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Persian book Zabur-e-Ajam (⁨زبورِعجم⁩), published in 1927.

Read it in the poem

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