شاعر
ایسی کوئی دنیا نہیں افلاک کے نیچےبے معرکہ ہاتھ آئے جہاں تخت جم و کے
English translation
There is no land or home on earth beneath this spinning azure dome, where one without great stress and strain the thrones of Jam and Kai may gain.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 of 5 in “شاعر” (The Poet) in the section Literature and Fine Arts, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
Read it in the poem۴ / ۵