صبح کا ستارہ
آسماں کیا، عدم آباد وطن ہے میراصبح کا دامن صد چاک کفن ہے میرا
English translation
What is the sky? Is the uninhabited homeland of mine? The tattered skirt of the morning is my shroud?
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 3 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.
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