ز آغاز خودی کس را خبر نیستخودی در حلقۂ شام و سحر نیست
Nobody knows how Selfhood came to be.It is not of this world of Time and Space.
ز خضر این نکتۂ نادر شنیدمکہ بحر از موج خود دیرینہ تر نیست
I heard this wise from the Prophet of the Sea:‘The ocean is not older than its waves."
From Payam-e-Mashriq (1923) by Allama Muhammad Iqbal · verified text, Iqbal Academy Pakistan