انسان اور بزم قدرت
کیا بھلی لگتی ہے آنکھوں کو شفق کی لالیمے گلرنگ خم شام میں تو نے ڈالی
English translation
How pleasing to the eye is the red colour of the evening's twilight as if you have poured rose-coloured wine in the evening's jar.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
خم شام: شام کا پیالہ۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 7 of 20 in “انسان اور بزم قدرت” (Man And Nature's Assemblage) 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 / ۲۰