مصوری
چون کلیمی شد برون از خویشتندست او تاریک و چوب او رسن
English translation
When (such a) Moses comes out; his bright hand turns dark and his staff (stick) turns into a (thin) rope.
Translated by Bashir Ahmad Dar
Urdu translation
ایسا کلیم جب اپنے آپ سے باہر آتا ہے تو اس کا یدبیضا تاریک اور عصا محض رسّی ہوتا ہے ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 23 of 42 in “مصوری” (Painting) 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 poem۲۳ / ۴۲