غزل
ترا بحر پر سکوں ہے، یہ سکوں ہے یا فسوں ہے؟نہ نہنگ ہے، نہ طوفاں، نہ خرابی کنارہ!
English translation
Your sea is full of calm and rest, is it repose or magic art? No sharks and storms disturb your sea, intact its coast in every part.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
نہنگ: مگر مچھ، مراد ہے خطرات۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 5 in “غزل” (Ghazal) 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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