صبح کا ستارہ
میری قدرت میں جو ہوتا، تو نہ اختر بنتاقعر دریا میں چمکتا ہوا گوہر بنتا
English translation
If I had the power, I would have never become a planet. I would have become the shining pearl in the ocean's depth.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 6 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 poem۶ / ۲۰