نسیم و شبنم
دونوں سے کیا ہے تجھے تقدیر نے محرمخاک چمن اچھی کہ سرا پردہ افلاک
English translation
O dew, God's will has made you know full well, both park and heavens high what i's more precious in your eyes, the dust of park or dome of sky?
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 4 in “نسیم و شبنم” (Breeze And Dew) 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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