صبح کا ستارہ
جس کا شوہر ہو رواں، ہو کے زرہ میں مستورسوئے میدان وغا، حب وطن سے مجبور
English translation
Whose husband, clad in the chains armour is departing to battlefield, compelled by the love of the homeland!
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 15 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 poem۱۵ / ۲۰