اذان
زہرہ نے کہا، اور کوئی بات نہیں کیا؟اس کرمک شب کور سے کیا ہم کو سروکار!
English translation
Venus replied ill disdain ‘Let us mind our business; thus night-blind insect is beneath our contempt.’
Translated by Naim Siddiqui
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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