صبح کا ستارہ

کسی پیشانی کے افشاں کے ستاروں میں رہوںکس مظلوم کی آہوں کے شراروں میں رہوں

English translation

I should live as shining specks in the decoration of someone's forehead; I should live in the sparks of some oppressed person's sighs.

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

About this couplet

This is couplet 13 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 poem

۱۳ / ۲۰