صبح کا ستارہ
ہے چمکنے میں مزا حسن کا زیور بن کرزینت تاج سر بانوئے قیصر بن کر
English translation
The pleasure of brightness is in being some beauty's ornament; in being the ornament of the crown of the princess of Caesar.
Caesar: This is the generic title of the emperors of the Roman Empire. They are proverbial for their immense power and wealth of that time.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
About this couplet
This is couplet 8 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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