فقر و راہبی
وجود صیرفی کائنات ہے اس کااسے خبر ہے، یہ باقی ہے اور وہ فانی
English translation
Its life like touchstone acts for Cosmos vast; it knows what will perish and what will last.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
صیرفی: کھوٹا کھرا پرکھنا۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 6 in “فقر و راہبی” (Faqr And Monkery) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۶