جگنو
چھوٹے سے چاند میں ہے ظلمت بھی روشنی بھینکلا کبھی گہن سے، آیا کبھی گہن میں
English translation
Darkness as well as light is in this little moon; now it is out of eclipse, now it is in eclipse.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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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