اذان

اک رات ستاروں سے کہا نجم سحر نےآدم کو بھی دیکھا ہے کسی نے کبھی بیدار؟

English translation

One night in a vision, I saw a morning star, asking the stars if they saw man ever awake.

Translated by Naim Siddiqui

About this couplet

This is couplet 1 of 7 in “⁨اذان⁩” (Call to Prayer) in the section Poems, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bal-e-Jibril (⁨بالِ جبریل⁩), published in 1935.

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