وجود
اے کہ ہے زیر فلک مثل شرر تیری نمودکون سمجھائے تجھے کیا ہیں مقامات وجود!
English translation
O man, your stay and show beneath the sky, is short and brief, like spark, that parts from flame: Who can make man detect this fact so clear that teing of man enjoys high rank and name?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 3 in “وجود” (Being) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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