صبح کا ستارہ
میری قسمت میں ہے ہر روز کا مرنا جیناساقی موت کے ہاتھوں سے صبوحی پینا
English translation
My destiny is dying and being born every day. Drinking morning draft of wine from the hand of death's cup-bearer.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 4 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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