فرشتوں کاگیت
عقل ہے بے زمام ابھی، عشق ہے بے مقام ابھینقش گر، ازل! ترا نقش ہے نا تمام ابھی
English translation
Reason is unbridled yet, love is still a dream; thy work remains unfinished still, O Craftsman of Eternity!
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
Word meanings
زمام: لگام، نکیل۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 13 in “فرشتوں کاگیت” (Song of the Angels) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (بالِ جبریل), published in 1935.
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