اسرار پیدا
ناچیز جہان مہ و پرویں ترے آگےوہ عالم مجبور ہے، تو عالم آزاد
English translation
The world of Pleiades and the Moon by natural laws is chained and bound; whereas the world in which you dwell owns insight, will and mind much sound.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 4 in “اسرار پیدا” (Open Secrets) in the section Education and Upbringing, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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