جگنو
حسن قدیم کی یہ پوشیدہ اک جھلک تھیلے آئی جس کو قدرت خلوت سے انجمن میں
English translation
Was it the concealed glimpse of the Eternal Beauty, which was brought by Nature out of solitude into the assembly?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 5 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.
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