تمہید
تری نجات غم مرگ سے نہیں ممکنکہ تو خودی کو سمجھتا ہے پیکر خاکی
English translation
Your anguish sharp for Death you can not keep at bay, because you deem that Self is merely made of clay.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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