جگنو

آیا ہے آسماں سے اڑ کر کوئی ستارہیا جان پڑ گئی ہے مہتاب کی کرن میں

English translation

Has some star flown down from the sky? Or has a moon's ray been brought to life?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 2 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

۲ / ۱۸