تمہید
اگر نہ سہل ہوں تجھ پر زمیں کے ہنگامےبری ہے مستی اندیشہ ہائے افلاکی
English translation
If freaks of fate with smile on lips you can not face, the secrets hid in firmament n're claim to trace.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 9 in “تمہید” (The Prologue) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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