ماہ نو
ٹوٹ کر خورشید کی کشتی ہوئی غرقاب نیلایک ٹکڑا تیرتا پھرتا ہے روئے آب نیل
English translation
The sun's boat is broken and drowned in the Nile, but a piece is floating about on the water of the Nile.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
روئے آب: پانی کی سطح۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 1 of 7 in “ماہ نو” (The Crescent) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
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