خفتگان خاک سے استفسار
کر رہا ہے آسماں جادو لب گفتار پرساحر شب کی نظر ہے دیدہ بیدار پر
English translation
The sky is casting a spell over the talking lip; the night's magician is watching the awakened eye.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ساحر: جادوگر۔لب گفتار: بولنے والا ہونٹ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 of 26 in “خفتگان خاک سے استفسار” (Inquiry from the Sleepers of the Grave) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۳ / ۲۶