آفتاب
ہے محفل وجود کا ساماں طراز تویزدان ساکنان نشیب و فراز تو
English translation
You are the decorator of necessaries of existence' assemblage; you are the Yazdan* of the denizens of the high and the low.
(Yazdan: In the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian philosophy of Persia he is the god of good and virtue as opposed to Ahraman, who is the god of evil and sin.)
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ساکنان نشیب و فراز: مراد ہے امیر اور غریب۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 10 in “آفتاب” (The Sun) 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 poem۷ / ۱۰