ایک فلسفہ زدہ سید زادے کے نام
محکم کیسے ہو زندگانیکس طرح خودی ہو لازمانی!
English translation
Man's need is how this earthly life to brace, he yearns that Self may last 'yond Time and Space.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
لازماني: لا زوال۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 15 in “ایک فلسفہ زدہ سید زادے کے نام” (Admonition To A Philosophy Stricken Sayyad) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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