صبح کا ستارہ
ہے یہ انجام اگر زینت عالم ہو کرکیوں نہ گر جائو ں کسی پھول پہ شبنم ہو کر
English translation
If this is the end of being the decoration of the universe: Why should I not fall as dew on some flower?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 12 of 20 in “صبح کا ستارہ” (The Morning Star –Venus) 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 poem۱۲ / ۲۰