جگنو

یہ چاند آسماں کا شاعر کا دل ہے گویاواں چاندنی ہے جو کچھ، یاں درد کی کسک ہے

English translation

This moon in the sky is the poet's heart so to say. It is moonlight there what here the prick of pathos is.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 15 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

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