حضرت انسان
فلک کو کیا خبر یہ خاکداں کس کا نشیمن ہےغرض انجم سے ہے کس کے شبستاں کی نگہبانی
English translation
Who lives on this earth what does the sky know, for whom a night watch? For whom the stars glow?
Translated by Q.A. Kabir
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 of 6 in “حضرت انسان” (Revered Human) in the section The Amanuensis of Mullah Zaighum, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Armaghan-e-Hijaz (ارمغانِ حجاز), published in 1938.
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