جگنو

یہ امتیاز لیکن اک بات ہے ہماریجگنو کا دن وہی ہے جو رات ہے ہماری

English translation

This distinction but is a way of our thinking; the fire-fly's day is the same as our night.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 of 18 in “⁨جگنو⁩” (The Fire-Fly) 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 poem

۱۳ / ۱۸