آواز غیب

کس طرح ہوا کند ترا نشتر تحقیقہوتے نہیں کیوں تجھ سے ستاروں کے جگر چاک

English translation

The knife of thy hunt how you made blunt, the shining stars why you could ne’er hunts.

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

Word meanings

کند: جو تیز نہ رہا ہو۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 of 7 in “⁨آواز غیب⁩” (Mysterious Voice) in the section Beginning, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (⁨ارمغانِ حجاز⁩), published in 1938.

Read it in the poem

۲ / ۷