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مثل شرر ذرہ را تن بہ تپیدن دہم

Each atom’s body like a spark

فارسی Persian5 verses

مثل شرر ذرہ را تن بہ تپیدن دہمتن بہ تپیدن دھم بال پریدن دہم

Each atom’s body like a spark. I set a-quivering,Each atom quivers through the dark. And soars as on a wing.

سوز نوایم نگر ریزۂ الماس راقطرۂ شبنم کنم خوی چکیدن دہم

List to my music burning new! Each diamantine grainI fashion like a drop of dew. To trickle soft as rain.

چون ز مقام نمود نغمۂ شیرین زنمنیم شبان صبح را میل دمیدن دہم

From manifesting’s stage when break. My soft, sweet melodies,Even in the dead of night I make. The dawn desire to rise.

یوسف گم گشتہ را باز گشودم نقابتا بہ تنک مایگان ذوق خریدن دہم

Joseph, concealed from sight so long, I have revealed anew,That! may fire the needy throng. His beauty to pursue.

عشق شکیب آزما خاک ز خود رفتہ راچشم تری داد و من لذت دیدن دہم

Dear love, that doth man’s patience try, To dust in ecstasyHath given eyes to weep, and I, The wondrous joy to see

From Zabur-e-Ajam (1927) by Allama Muhammad Iqbal · verified text, Iqbal Academy Pakistan

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