جگنو

یا شب کی سلطنت میں دن کا سفیر آیاغربت میں آ کے چمکا، گمنام تھا وطن میں

English translation

Or the emissary of the day has come to the night's kingdom? Has become prosperous in foreign land was unknown in homeland?

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 3 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

۳ / ۱۸