اذان
کہنے لگا مریخ، ادا فہم ہے تقدیرہے نیند ہی اس چھوٹے سے فتنے کو سزاوار
English translation
Mercury said, ‘Destiny has wisely decreed, that this impish trouble maker should always be asleep.’
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 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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