ماہ نو
چرخ نے بالی چرا لی ہے عروس شام کینیل کے پانی میں یا مچھلی ہے سیم خام کی
English translation
Has the sky stolen the ear-ring of the evening's bride? Or has the fragile cord in the Nile's waters strolling?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
چرخ: آسمان۔عروس: دلہن۔سیم خام: خالص چاندی۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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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