جان و تن
ارتباط حرف و معنی، اختلاط جان و تنجس طرح اخگر قبا پوش اپنی خاکستر سے ہے
English translation
What binds the words and their import? What links the body and the soul? It wears the cloak of its own ash just like the burnt refuse of coal.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
ارتباط: ربط، تعلق۔اختلاط: میل جول، خلط ملط۔خاکستر: راکھ۔اخگر: بجھتا ہوا انگارہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 3 in “جان و تن” (Soul And Body) 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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